'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, father Marcus begins stockpiling cans, running evacuation drills and digging a doomsday bunker in the back garden. At the same time, the Minton 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…mehr
'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, father Marcus begins stockpiling cans, running evacuation drills and digging a doomsday bunker in the back garden. At the same time, the Minton 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
Temi Oh wrote her first novel, Do You Dream of Terra-Two?, while studying for a BSci in Neuroscience. It won the American Library Association's Alex Award in 2020 and was an NPR Books We Love pick in 2019. She has written stories for Marvel's Black Panther, Dr Who and Overwatch. Her second novel, More Perfect, was published by Simon and Schuster in May 2023. Her first short film, Murmur, was funded by Sky Arts and the BFI. Since then, she has written on the Netflix TV series Castlevania: Nocturne and the CBBC series Silverpoint.
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