A startlingly beautiful tale of the family’s survival, THE FINISH We Start From is a haunting but hopeful dystopian eyesight of the familiar world made dangerous and unstable.

‘Engrossing, powerful’ – Naomi Alderman, writer of The Power

‘I was moved, terrified, uplifted – sometimes all three at once’ – Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl With a Pearl Earring

Megan Hunter’s honed and spare prose paints an imagined future as realistic as it is frightening. Though the country is falling aside around them about THE FINISH We BEGIN FROM and its folks are forced to be refugees, this family’s globe – of new life and new hope – sings with like.

In the midst of a mysterious environmental crisis, as London is submerged below flood waters, a female gives birth to her first child. Times later, the family members are forced to leave their home in search of safety. Because they move from place to place, shelter to shelter, their trip traces both dread and question as the baby’s small fists grasp at the things he sees, as he expands and stretches, flourishing and content against all the odds.

With Benedict Cumberbatch calling it ‘a stunning tale of motherhood’, film rights have already been sold to his production company SunnyMarch.