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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.

‘Engrossing, compelling and hopeful’ – Naomi Alderman, author of The Power

‘Stunning’ – Benedict Cumberbatch

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

‘I was moved, terrified, uplifted – sometimes all three at once’ – Tracy Chevalier

‘Beautifully spare and haunting’ – Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven