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Description
A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, and an unforgettable dystopian vision of a familiar world in flames
Shortlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize 2024
A Spectator Book of the Year 2024
'A gut-punch of a novel' Observer
'Hauntingly realistic, disturbing, stylish, raw and urgent' Daily Telegraph
'Left me breathless' Jodie Whittaker
It is possible for a mother to love her children beyond reason. It is possible that wildfires will take hold, the internet will turn off, the clean water will stop running. It is possible to find yourself in relationships that are as dark and exploitative as mankind's relationship to earth. It is possible you will realise one day that your city is not safe, that you have to leave, that you have to get the children out.
And when that day comes, this is what Cass does. Packing up their lives, she and her children set off in search of a place of greater safety.
'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
'Dineen is an extraordinary writer' Evening Standard
'We owe Roz Dineen a debt. This is a remarkable book' TLS
Product details
Published | 24 Apr 2025 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 336 |
ISBN | 9781526659200 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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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
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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
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Dineen is an extraordinary writer
EVENING STANDARD, The best books to read this summer
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Impossible to put down ... Hauntingly realistic, disturbing, stylish, raw and urgent
DAILY TELEGRAPH
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A disturbing but ultimately hopeful dystopian novel
GRAZIA
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A haunting vision of our slow-motion apocalypse. This is exactly what it will be like
MICHAEL LaPOINTE, author of The Creep