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Temporarily out of stock
Title: End We Start From, The
Author: HUNTER MEGAN
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 30/05/2017
Imprint: PAN MACMILLAN
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active
I was moved, terrified, uplifted – sometimes all three at once' Tracy Chevalier
In the midst of a mysterious environmental crisis, as London is submerged below flood waters, a woman gives birth to her first child, Z. Days later, the family are forced to leave their home in search of safety. As they move from place to place, shelter to shelter, their journey traces both fear and wonder as Z's small fists grasp at the things he sees, as he grows and stretches, thriving and content against all the odds.
This is a story of new motherhood in a terrifying setting: a familiar world made dangerous and unstable, its people forced to become refugees. Startlingly beautiful, Megan Hunter's <i>The End We Start From</i> is a gripping novel that paints an imagined future as realistic as it is frightening. And yet, though the country is falling apart around them, this family’s world – of new life and new hope – sings with love.
Gleebooks review: I found Megan Hunter’s debut novel, The End We Start From in a box of proofs—I admit, I was drawn to it because it was small and had a nice cover … but, Wow! I read it in one sitting, and could not think of anything else for the rest of that day—it is the best thing I have read this year thus far. Wow. Just wow. A brief, but amazingly deep tale of a young woman (the unnamed narrator) who has just given birth to her first child in the midst of a catastrophic environmental disaster—London and the UK are sinking beneath flood waters. The writing is set in paragraphs of three sentences or so, which makes it extremely hard to put down (I’ll just read one more bit…). This is the first I’d heard of Hunter—but she can sure write.
ISBN: 9781509839100
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 96