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By (author) Hunter Megan
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For fans of Station Eleven, an extraordinary story of motherhood in a world changed beyond recognition.
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Now a major film starring Killing Eve”s Jodie Comer.
As flood waters close over London, a woman gives birth to a child. Heartfelt and urgently original, The End We Start From is the compulsive debut novel from Megan Hunter.
”Beautifully spare and haunting” – Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
”Extraordinary. Megan Hunter”s prose is exquisite” – Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites
Days after giving birth, mother and child are forced to leave home in search of safety. The journey north with be dangerous – but new life and fresh hope push them on . . .
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.
”Virginia Woolf does cli-fi . . . tremendous” – Independent
”Stunning” – Benedict Cumberbatch
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The End We Start From is a beautifully spare, haunting meditation on the persistence of life after catastrophe. I loved it.
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I can’t remember ever having read a novel quite as sparing or as daring as Megan Hunter’s The End We Start From, or one that delivers so mighty an impact from such delicate materials. It is a moving, wistful and compelling debut.
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The End We Start From is strange and powerful, and very apt for these uncertain times. I was moved, terrified, uplifted – sometimes all three at once. It takes skill to manage that, and Hunter has a poet’s understanding of how to make each word count.
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A shot of distilled story . . . engrossing, compelling and finally hopeful
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An exceptional, alarming and beautiful book, which still echoes months after I finished reading it. Megan Hunter is a writer of unnerving power.
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I”ll be recommending this book for years to come. Utterly brilliant, hugely important. Here”s the thing: it”s perfect.
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Extraordinary. Megan Hunter”s prose is exquisite, her depiction of a world descending into chaos is frighteningly real, and yet, it is her portrayal of motherhood – that tender-terrifying experience of bringing a child into a world – that has remained with me. The End We Start From is an incredible, original exploration of all that beauty, boredom and bewilderment. I read it in one sitting, and was deeply moved.
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The End We Start From is relentlessly, achingly personal. Hunter reminds us that disasters are rarely experienced in panorama. Instead, we live bone-deep inside our narrator. This book is fierce, sorrowful, and spiked with moments of bright joy.
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The End We Start From is so good and clever: a beautiful, timely book about survival (both domestic and global) shot through with hope and humanity
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Beautiful . . . Water isn”t the thing here, love is. And how we survive as the level of love rises
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Exceptional, stunning. I devoured it
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A dystopia that feels utterly convincing as our narrator gives birth to her son in a London under threat of advancing flood waters. She lives in the gulp zone so must head off into a familiar territory that has become terrifying in search of shelter and safety. This slender take on new motherhood has stayed with me – not least in making me think about the UK as a place to flee from rather than to, and to imagine Londoners turned refugees.
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