The End We Start From [Paperback]

The #1 Indie Next Selection for November 2017, a Summer/Fall 2017 Indies Introduce Selection, a Fall 2017 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, an Amazon Best of the Month in Literature & Fiction


The End We Start Fromis strange and powerful, and very apt for these uncertain times. I was moved, terrified, upliftedsometimes all three at once. It takes skill to manage that, and Hunter has a poet's understanding of how to make each word count. Tracy Chevalier, author ofGirl With a Pearl Earring 

Preempted by publishers around the world within days of the 2016 London Book Fair,The End We Start Fromheralds the arrival of Megan Hunter, a dazzling and unique literary talent. Hunters debut is a searing original, a modern-day parable of rebirth and renewal, of maternal bonds, and the instinct to survive and thrive in the absence of all thats familiar.

As London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child, Z. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place. The story traces fear and wonder as the baby grows, thriving and content against all the odds.

The End We Start Fromis an indelible and elemental first booka lyrical vision of the strangeness and beauty of new motherhood, and a tale of endurance in the face of ungovernable change.


In elegiac lines, Hunter tells a love story through the eyes of a new mother, who witnesses the death of an old life and the start of a new one...a perfect portrait of rebirth the final testament that time, and life, do go on, despite our best efforts.Cotton Codinha,ElleMagazine
From a daring new talent, Megan Hunter,The End We Start Fromis a beautifully spare, haunting meditation (Emily St. John Mandel) on young motheló&