Briefly Very Beautiful

Beschreibung

A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, and an unforgettable dystopian vision of a familiar world in flames<BR><BR>Shortlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize 2024<BR>A Spectator Book of the Year 2024<BR><BR>'Impossible to put down' Daily Telegraph<BR><BR>'Instantly immersive, beautifully imagined, this is an unflinching but inspiring story about some things we're going to lose, and other things we must never lose' Lee Child<BR><BR>'Left me breathless: it is a stunning, poetic, impelling story of love and survival, which I could not stop reading ...

An incredible novel' Jodie Whittaker<BR><BR>______________________________________<BR><BR>The world is on fire. And what will you do?<BR><BR>In a city rocked by global catastrophe, home-grown terrorism, shortages and wildfires, Cass is quietly raising three small children by herself. Her husband, Nathaniel, has left to serve as a medic in a war overseas.<BR><BR>As life in the city becomes increasingly impossible, Cass knows she can no longer wait for Nathaniel's return.

Packing up their lives, she and the children set off in search of a place of greater safety.<BR><BR>But Cass will learn that not all promises and not all sanctuaries are what they seem - and as the fires around them begin to close in, she'll discover just how far she'll go for her children in a world teetering on apocalypse.<BR><BR>Sensual, claustrophobic and vivid, Briefly Very Beautiful announces the arrival of a major new talent, painting an unforgettable portrait of a mother trying to hold her family together. <BR><BR>______________________________________________<BR><BR>'Beautiful and timely, tough yet tender ...This is an important book and I devoured it' Clover Stroud<BR><BR>'Gorgeous, fierce and haunting ...

A book that is, quite literally, on fire. Very beautiful and all-too brief' Catherine Taylor <BR><BR>'A story that burns from the page. Dineen writes about motherhood and the climate crisis with piercing clarity' Amy Twigg, author of Spoilt Creatures<BR><BR>'A haunting vision of our slow-motion apocalypse. This is exactly what it will be like' Michael LaPointe, author of The Creep

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