

The End We Start From
Author: Megan Hunter
Narrator: Louise Brealey
Unabridged: 2 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 11/07/2017
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Dystopian
Author: Megan Hunter
Narrator: Louise Brealey
Unabridged: 2 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 11/07/2017
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Dystopian
Megan Hunter earned a BA in English literature from Sussex University and an MPhil in English literature from Jesus College, Cambridge. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize International Creative Writing Competition, and she was a finalist for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award with her short story “Selfing.”
Louise Brealey, AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator, studied history at Cambridge University before studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Manhattan. On television, she appeared in the long-running medical drama Casualty on BBC One in 2002, appearing in ninety-six episodes. Afterwards, she appeared in the BBC serialization of Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, as well as Hotel Babylon, Law & Order: UK, Ripper Street, and in all series of Sherlock as Molly Hooper.
My first reaction upon finishing this book is no. I didn't know what it was about, so I just kept reading and trying to decipher what was going on the whole time. I got very annoyed by the choppy writing and the vagueness. It does become clear that it's about a women who recently gives birth in a wo......more
When I finished this short, thought provoking novel, which I read in almost one sitting, my reaction on the one hand was that this could be seen as a bold debut or on the other as an overly ambitious one. There is no dialogue, the characters are nameless except for an initial, and the structure of t......more
“Virginia Woolf does cli-fi.” The Independent (London)
“A new take on the [dystopian] genre, this startling debut combines utter despair with the reality of family life.” Elle (UK)
“[A] sharpened lens on motherhood’s apocalyptic-feeling joys and terrors and how they can form an all-encompassing world.” Vogue
“Poetic and succinct…Hunter’s is an uncommon disaster tale―lovely, intimate, and foreboding.” Foreword Reviews
“[Hunter’s] beautiful prose is spare, yet able to conjure every emotion in the reader from terror to wonder.” Bookseller (London)
“Riveting…Hunter’s writing on the human impact of climate change charges this slim poetic work of fiction with powerful dystopian weight…An exquisite paean to how we come back from the times that challenge us all.” BookPage
“The story may seem familiar…but debut novelist Hunter’s spare prose and luminous writing give it a fresh immediacy.” Library Journal (starred review)
“A uniquely intimate tale of motherhood amid catastrophe.” Booklist
“A haunting take on modern disaster…Prescient in its depiction of climate change induced catastrophe and timeless in its clear-eyed understanding of love.” Kirkus Reviews
“Told in a voice that is by turns meditative, desperate, and hopeful, this novel showcases Hunter’s considerable talents and range.” Publishers Weekly