The End of the Day (Paperback)
Claire North (author)- In stock
Shortlisted for the 2017 Sunday Times/Peters Fraser Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award
Charlie meets everyone - but only once.
You might meet him in a hospital, in a warzone, or at the scene of a traffic accident. Then again, you might meet him at the North Pole - Charlie gets everywhere.
Sometimes he is sent as a courtesy, sometimes as a warning. Either way, this is going to be the most important meeting of your life.
The End of the Day is the stunning new story from author Claire North: the voice behind the word-of-mouth bestseller The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August.
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780356507330
Number of pages: 432
Weight: 300 g
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 27 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Funny, ambitious, immensely humane and full of philosophical panache' - Sunday Times
'Extraordinary . . . wildly impressive' - Lucy Hughes-Hallett, BBC Radio 4
'Claire North's writing is terrific, smart and entertaining' - Patrick Ness
'The End of the Day is [North's] most ambitious novel . . . Every one of the short 110 chapters is shaped with philosophical panache' - Guardian
'Poetic and imaginative . . . A thoroughly engaging and astute read' - SciFiNow
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