The End We Start From

b>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./b>b>'Engrossing, compelling' - Naomi Alderman, author of The Power/b>br>b>'I was moved, terrified, uplifted /b>-b> sometimes all three at once' - Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl With a Pearl Earring/b>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.b>With Benedict Cumberbatch calling it 'a stunning tale of motherhood', film rights have been sold to his production company SunnyMarch./b>

Product details

• Authors: Megan Hunter, Hunter Megan
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781509843985
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-4398-5
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 196 mm x 14 mm
• Series: 181 POCHE; 181 POCHE
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, Climate Change, FICTION / Dystopian, FICTION / Disaster, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world