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
The best novel I have read this year ... In the tradition of haunting dystopian fiction by women (Doris Lessing, Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood), Briefly Very Beautiful is a poetic and sensual page-turner that perfectly captures motherhood on the brink of apocalypse
SPECTATOR, Books of the Year
Dineen is an extraordinary writer
EVENING STANDARD, The best books to read this summer
Impossible to put down ... Hauntingly realistic, disturbing, stylish, raw and urgent
DAILY TELEGRAPH
A disturbing but ultimately hopeful dystopian novel
GRAZIA
A haunting vision of our slow-motion apocalypse. This is exactly what it will be like
