The End We Start From
Picador (Verlag)
978-1-5098-4398-5 (ISBN)
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 will 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
Megan Hunter is a prizewinning novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. Her first novel, The End We Start From was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Books Are My Bag Awards, longlisted for the Aspen Words Prize, was a Barnes and Noble Discover Awards finalist and won the Forward Reviews Editor’s Choice Award. It was adapted into a major motion picture by Alice Birch, starring Jodie Comer and directed by Mahalia Belo. Her second novel, The Harpy, was Indie Book of the Month; she is currently adapting it for television with Red Planet Pictures. In 2024 her dramatic monologue Salt of the Earth premiered at Venice Film Festival. Megan’s other writing has appeared in the White Review, the TLS, Literary Hub, Vogue, Elle, BOMB, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, UK.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.04.2018 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 196 mm |
| Gewicht | 132 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5098-4398-1 / 1509843981 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5098-4398-5 / 9781509843985 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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