Book Review: The End We Start From by Megan Hunter

A sparse, emotional, poetic novella contrasting the devastation from climate change with the promise of new life.

This was a strange little book and an odd reading experience. Set in the present day, an unnamed narrator has just given birth as London is experiencing catastrophic flooding. Conditions become increasingly dire and she, her husband R and baby Z are forced to evacuate their apartment. (One of the first oddities about this novel is that all the character…