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'Darkly unsettling' Guardian
'Intoxicating - dark, heady, lyrical' Daily Telegraph
'Terrifying and inventive' Observer
In a world devastated by antimicrobial resistance, two survivors are thrown into crisis when a woman washes ashore on the remote island where they live
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Years after complete antibiotic resistance has resulted in the loss…
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1 author picked Whether Violent or Natural as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It's not often a character's voice sticks with you for months after finishing a book. Sometimes a voice stays with you because of its warmth and compassion. Sometimes because it's a voice that echoes your own. And sometimes it's because that voice is so wonderfully twisted that it haunts you long afterward.
The narrator of Whether Violent or Natural is the latter.
Kit endures the apocalypse in a bunker beneath a crumbling castle. Clearly traumatised by the chaos she's lived through, her disturbingly childlike tone lures you in – but don't be deceived. There's a difference between fragility…
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