2017 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize for Fiction (second place)
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 original, The End We Start From is the powerful 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
Genre: Science Fiction
As flood waters close over London, a woman gives birth to a child. Heartfelt and original, The End We Start From is the powerful 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
Genre: Science Fiction
Praise for this book
"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." - Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
"I was moved, terrified, uplifted." - Tracy Chevalier
"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." - Jim Crace
"Beautiful . . . Water isn't the thing here, love is. And how we survive as the level of love rises." - Cynan Jones
"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." - Hannah Kent
"A beautifully spare, haunting meditation on the persistence of life after catastrophe. I loved it." - Emily St John Mandel
"An exceptional, alarming and beautiful book, which still echoes months after I finished reading it. Megan Hunter is a writer of unnerving power." - Evie Wyld
"I was moved, terrified, uplifted." - Tracy Chevalier
"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." - Jim Crace
"Beautiful . . . Water isn't the thing here, love is. And how we survive as the level of love rises." - Cynan Jones
"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." - Hannah Kent
"A beautifully spare, haunting meditation on the persistence of life after catastrophe. I loved it." - Emily St John Mandel
"An exceptional, alarming and beautiful book, which still echoes months after I finished reading it. Megan Hunter is a writer of unnerving power." - Evie Wyld
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