**The #1 Indie Next Selection for November 2017, a Summer/Fall 2017
Indies Introduce Selection, a Fall 2017 Barnes & Noble Discover Great
New Writers Selection, an Amazon Best of the Month in Literature &
Fiction
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The End We Start From is strange and powerful, and very apt for
these uncertain times. I was moved, terrified, uplifted--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.--Tracy Chevalier, author
of Girl With a Pearl Earring
Preempted by publishers around the world within days of the 2016 London
Book Fair, The End We Start From 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.
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. The story 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.
"In elegiac lines, Hunter tells a love story through the eyes of a new
mother, who witnesses the death of an old life and the start of a new
one...a perfect portrait of rebirth the final testament that time, and
life, do go on, despite our best efforts."--Cotton Codinha, Elle
Magazine
