Briefly Very Beautiful

A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, and an unforgettable dystopian vision of a familiar world in flames Shortlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize 2024 A Spectator Book of the Year 2024 'Impossible to put down' Daily Telegraph '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 '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 ______________________________________ The world is on fire. And what will you do? 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. As life in the city becomes increasingly impossible, Cass knows she can no longer wait for Nathaniel’s return. Packing