The End We Start From: Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Jodie Comer

by Megan Hunter

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.

'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

Megan Hunter's honed and spare prose paints an imagined future as realistic as it is frightening. Though the country is falling apart around them and its people are forced to become refugees, this family’s world – of new life and new hope – sings with love.

In the midst of a mysterious environmental crisis, as London is submerged below flood waters, a woman gives birth to her first child. Days later, the family are forced to leave their home in search of safety. As they move from place to place, shelter to shelter, their journey traces both fear and wonder as the baby's small fists grasp at the things he sees, as he grows and stretches, thriving and content against all the odds.

With Benedict Cumberbatch calling it ‘a stunning tale of motherhood’, film rights have been sold to his production company SunnyMarch.

• ISBN10: 1509839100
• ISBN13: 9781509839100
• Publish Date: 18 May 2017
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 15 April 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Imprint: Picador
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 140
• Language: English

Reviews

[HekArtemis]

I had this in my feminist Fiction shelf, which means someone or some website or some list called this feminist. It is not. I don't appreciate that someone lied about it being such.

This book reads like disjointed, muddled, journal entries. Made by a woman who is poetically weird as heck. There are allusions to the Yellow Wallpaper too, so I feel like she might be a bit mad.

I think this could have made a good story if told normally. And I suppose it is still a good story as it is. But the writing style is super not for me. Also I just don't get how she could love that husband of hers, ugh. So not feminist.