The End We Start From
Megan Hunter
Grove Atlantic
<p><B>"<I>The End We Start From</I> is strange and powerful, and very apt for these uncertain times. I was moved, terrified, uplifted &#8211; 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."&#8212;Tracy Chevalier</B></p> <p>Pre-empted by publishers around the world within days of the 2016 London Book Fair, <i>The End We Start From</i> heralds the arrival of Megan Hunter, a dazzling and unique literary talent. Hunter's debut is a searing original, a modern-day parable of rebirth and renewal, of maternal bonds, and the instinct to survive and thrive in the absence of all that's familiar.</p> <p>As London is submerged below flood waters, a woman gives birth to her first child, Z. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place, shelter to shelter, to a desolate island and back again. The...</p>