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'Our father had imagined the end of the world so often that, for a while, he believed that he summoned it...' The Minton family is in crisis. After losing his job, Marcus begins stockpiling cans, running evacuation drills and digging a doomsday bunker in the back garden. At the same time, his daughters are unravelling in their own ways - Chantale is being haunted by dreams of disaster, and Briar's obsession with a missing classmate draws her deeper into the seductive world of a UFO cult. Meanwhile, no one is aware of the devastating diagnosis their mother has been desperately trying to keep…mehr

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'Our father had imagined the end of the world so often that, for a while, he believed that he summoned it...' The Minton family is in crisis. After losing his job, Marcus begins stockpiling cans, running evacuation drills and digging a doomsday bunker in the back garden. At the same time, his daughters are unravelling in their own ways - Chantale is being haunted by dreams of disaster, and Briar's obsession with a missing classmate draws her deeper into the seductive world of a UFO cult. Meanwhile, no one is aware of the devastating diagnosis their mother has been desperately trying to keep hidden. Then, on the morning of the eldest daughter's wedding, an extinction-level event tears the world apart, and the Mintons must fight their way through a devastated city - back to safety, survival, and each other. A family drama perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Leftovers.  PRAISE FOR TEMI OH: 'Spectacular... Science fiction at its best' SAARA EL-ARIFI, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Final Strife 'Fascinating' GUARDIAN 'Moving, powerful, and deeply human' LOCUS MAGAZINE 'A major new voice. Read Temi Oh today. Everybody will be reading her tomorrow' STEPHEN BAXTER, author of World Engines
Autorenporträt
Temi Oh wrote her debut novel, Do You Dream of Terra-Two?, while studying Neuroscience. The book went on to win the American Library Association's Alex Award in 2020 and was named an NPR Best Book of the Year. She is also the author of More Perfect and Not With a Bang (forthcoming, Spring 2026), as well as short fiction for Marvel's Black Panther and Doctor Who. She is an award-winning screenwriter whose credits include the Netflix series Castlevania: Nocturneand the CBBC drama Silverpoint. She has also written two original short films: Murmur (Sky Arts/BFI) and Uncanny Device (Four:8 Productions).