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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

As flood waters close over London, a woman gives birth to her first child . . .
'Virginia Woolf does cli-fi . . . tender and tremendous' Independent
'Lyrical, uplifting and unmissable' Stylist
'Keeps the reader pinned to the page' Guardian
'Sparse, beautiful and heroic' Evie Wyld, Observer
'Beautifully spare and haunting' Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
'I was moved, terrified, uplifted - sometimes all three at once' Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl With a Pearl Earring
'Extraordinary . . . I read it in one sitting' Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites
'A stunning tale . . . striking and frighteningly real' Benedict Cumberbatch

A story of sheer catastrophe, peppered with endearing experiences and milestones of new motherhood. The element which defines this short piece of dystopian fiction is the unique, elegant writing style . . . The End We Start From is beautiful, thought-provoking and most of all, hauntingly believable. It is a tale of hope at a time when the country truly needs it. A stunning debut.