The End We Start From

**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JODIE COMER**
**“Engrossing, compelling.” — Naomi Alderman, author of *The Power***
**“I was moved, terrified, uplifted** – **sometimes all three at once.” — Tracy Chevalier, author of *Girl With a Pearl Earring***
Publishing in the US to a wave of critical acclaim and nominations for two major literary prizes, Megan Hunter’s internationally bestselling, extraordinarily poetic debut novel imagines new motherhood in the midst of an all-too-possible climate change catastrophe. A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, *The End We Start From* 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.
As London is submerged below floodwaters, 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. Their journey traces fear and wonder as the baby grows, thriving and content against all the odds.
*The End We Start From* is an indelible and elemental first book—a lyrical vision of the strangeness and beauty of new motherhood, and a tale of endurance in the face of ungovernable change.