The End We Start From
18 May 2017Synopsis
**Now a major motion picture starring Jodie Comer**
A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, The End We Start From is a haunting but hopeful dystopian vision of a familiar world made dangerous and unstable.
'Engrossing, compelling' - Naomi Alderman, author of The Power
'I was moved, terrified, uplifted – sometimes all three at once' - Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl With a Pearl Earring
Megan Hunter's honed and spare prose paints an imagined future as realistic as it is frightening. Though the country is falling apart around them and its people are forced to become refugees, this family’s world – of new life and new hope – sings with love.
In the midst of a mysterious environmental crisis, as London is submerged below flood waters, a woman gives birth to her first child. 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 the baby's small fists grasp at the things he sees, as he grows and stretches, thriving and content against all the odds.
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18 May 2017
9781509863136Reviews
The End We Start From is a beautifully spare, haunting meditation on the persistence of life after catastrophe. I loved it.Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
A shot of distilled story . . . engrossing, compelling and finally hopefulNaomi Alderman, author of The Power, winner of the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
Extraordinary . . . The End We Start From is reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road . . . Megan Hunter’s remarkable debut novel feels like the other half of the storyFinancial Times
Powerful . . . an uplifting celebration of the reality of motherhood in the face of terrifying global disasterDaily Mail
