The End We Start From Audiobook

Quotes

• “Strange and powerful, and very apt for these uncertain times. I was moved, terrified, uplifted—sometimes all three at once.”

  — Tracy Chevalier, New York Times bestselling author

• “The real strength of this wonderfully earthy novel is in its sharpened lens on motherhood’s apocalyptic-feeling joys and terrors, and how they can form an all-encompassing world.”

  — Vogue

• “A new take on the [dystopian] genre, this startling debut combines utter despair with the reality of family life.”

  — Elle (UK)

• “Virginia Woolf does cli-fi.”

  — Independent (UK)

• “Poetic and succinct…Hunter’s is an uncommon disaster tale―lovely, intimate, and foreboding.”

  — Forword Reviews

• “[Hunter’s] beautiful prose is spare, yet able to conjure every emotion in the reader from terror to wonder. A stunning achievement.”

  — Bookseller (UK)

• “The story may seem familiar…but debut novelist Hunter’s spare prose and luminous writing give it a fresh immediacy.”

  — Library Journal (starred review)

• “Told in a voice that is by turns meditative, desperate, and hopeful, this novel showcases Hunter’s considerable talents and range.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Through the narrator’s restrained, episodic, and suspenseful recounting, Hunter excels particularly in portraying both devastating calamity and the aspects of mothering that are unchanged by it…A uniquely intimate tale of motherhood amid catastrophe.”

  — Booklist

• “A haunting take on modern disaster…Prescient in its depiction of climate change induced catastrophe and timeless in its clear-eyed understanding of love.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “A moving, wistful, and compelling debut.”

  — Jim Crace, author of Quarantine