When Georgie and Ramzy, two best friends in Whitley Bay, are asked to follow a strange and eccentric elderly woman into an abandoned amusements, you wonder where this story might be going. As it turns out, the woman is an inventor who has had the idea of 3D virtual reality, complete with smells, touch and interaction. Georgie and Ramzy are besotted with it, despite its imperfections.

But when Mr Mash, Georgie’s dog, falls ill, it heralds the start of a potential Armageddon - an end of days plague that starts to sweep the country gets Georgie and Ramzy thinking...how can the 3DVR invention help?

Dystopian, but contemporary, science-fiction set in a thoroughly recognisable world, there is lots to be enjoyed here, not least Georgie’s bravery and determination in the face of adversity.