Description
A blasted world.
A broken heart.
A shattering betrayal.
Heartlessness has become the law. In the wasted ruins of London, a woman pieces together fragments of her memory. As her past emerges, her own apocalypse begins.
Then is a novel of singular invention and bravery. With it, Julie Myerson has created an echo chamber of the heartbreaking and the terrifying, and an enduring dystopian vision.
An astonishing, apocalyptic new novel, from the author of Something Might Happen.
About the Author
Julie Myerson is the author of Home: The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived in Our House and nine novels, including the best-selling Something Might Happen, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize. In the words of the Observer, she 'has a talent for making the unthinkable readable. The results are riveting.'
Reviews
This is writing that takes the breath away... I cannot praise this staggeringly accomplished work highly enough -- Virginia Blackburn * Sunday Express *
Then is a bold, uncompromising book that marks out Myerson as a truly interesting and risk-taking author... grippingly good -- Elizabeth Day * Observer *
Julie Myerson offers a haunting twist on Armageddon... A chillingly persuasive vision of emotional hell -- Adrian Turpin * Financial Times *
An addictively readable feat of imagination -- Lionel Shriver
A daring and dazzling performance -- John Harding * Daily Mail *
Then is a devastatingly dark story, and the hypnotic quality of its writing, and the searing vision it lays before us, certainly appear to have sprung from a deep and frightening source -- Rosemary Goring * Sunday Herald *
The eeriness of the world outside is conveyed well; as are the horrors that beset the survivors... It is highly readable and involving, offering tantalising clues as the reader tries to navigate the grisly streets of London and the dark corners of the narrator's mind...but the central human narrative is strong and clear, proving that even in darkness there are points of light -- Philip Womack * Daily Telegraph *
One of Myerson's strength's lies in creating atmosphere... Myerson sees the pathos in small details * Independent *
At first this genre-bending novel feels like a departure for Myerson, but familiar themes kick in - injured children, broken homes, psychological torment. It's a chilling and original portrait of breakdown -- Emma Hagestadt * Independent *
Myerson displays a deft touch at providing the reader with telling, troubling details, clues to what might have happened. Unremittingly bleak, Then is a novel about memory as a woman tries to piece together the fragments of her past -- Tina Jackson * Metro *
Book Information
ISBN 9780099554721
Author Julie Myerson
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Vintage
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 224g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 19mm
