Briefly Very Beautiful

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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 2024A Spectator Book of the Year 2024<br>'Impossible to put down' Daily Telegraph<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 Cr

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781526659187

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

233 x 152 x 31 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Bloomsbury UK