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A Mother's Guide to the Apocalypse
- Author
- Hollie Overton
- Narrator
- Eleanor Caudill
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Publish Date
- 19 August 2025
- Run Time
- 10 hours 12 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
From the international bestselling author of Baby Doll comes a post-apocalyptic mystery exploring the unshakeable bond between mothers and daughters and the sacrifices we make for the people we love.
If you knew the world was ending, what lengths would you go to protect the people you love? How would you ensure their survival? And what secrets would you want to stay buried?
For Olivia Sullivan, the summer of 2024 was the beginning of the end. Political upheaval and natural disasters were bad enough, but danger arrives on her doorstep, threatening her triplet daughters, Olivia finds herself scrolling doomsday-prepping forums for hours determined to protect her family from the coming apocalypse. Olivia’s husband and friends insist she is being irrational, until she is swept away in a flash flood that devastated LA.
At least that’s the story her daughters, Rosie, Bettie, and Cassie, were always told.
Twenty years later, the triplets discover a box of their mother’s belongings that calls into question everything their father told them about their mother and her death. Reeling from this betrayal, the family returns to California, determined to uncover Olivia’s true fate.
Confronted by an unfamiliar world where nothing and no one are what they seem, the sisters must unravel the truth about their father and the mother who may have abandoned them, while struggling to hold onto the one constant in their lives—each other.
Critics Review
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“Hollie Overton has written an engrossing novel for those of us who believe that the way we take care of each other is the way we can survive. Tender and touching, it's a testament to the loving heart of post-apocalypse fiction.” —Meg Elison, author of The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
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“Riveting, conversational, and real, A Mother’s Guide to the Apocalypse feels like a letter from the future, or a missive from that prophetic mother who knew too much, too late, and attempted to give everything she had: love. A warning whose time has come.” —Alison Stine, Philip K. Dick Award–winning author of Dust
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Sizzling and richly imagined, A Mother’s Guide to the Apocalypse is a thought-provoking page-turner I gulped down in one sitting!" —Rita Zoey Chin, author of The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern
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“Hollie Overton shines in this vivid imagining of our society after it collapses. Equal parts thriller and mystery, A Mother's Guide to the Apocalypse is really a love letter to those we hold most dear, and a guide—not for a post-apocalyptic world, but one on how to love each other.”—Julie Clark, author of The Last Fight
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Details
- Author
- Hollie Overton
- Narrator
- Eleanor Caudill
- Duration
- 10 hours 12 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 August 2025
- ISBN
- 9781668650172
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Genre
- Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Family life fiction
Synopsis
From the international bestselling author of Baby Doll comes a post-apocalyptic mystery exploring the unshakeable bond between mothers and daughters and the sacrifices we make for the people we love. If you knew the world was ending, what lengths would you go to protect the people you love? How would you ensure their survival? And what secrets would you want to stay buried?  For Olivia Sullivan, the summer of 2024 was the beginning of the end. Political upheaval and natural disasters were bad enough, but danger arrives on her doorstep, threatening her triplet daughters, Olivia finds herself scrolling doomsday-prepping forums for hours determined to protect her family from the coming apocalypse. Olivia’s husband and friends insist she is being irrational, until she is swept away in a flash flood that devastated LA. At least that’s the story her daughters, Rosie, Bettie, and Cassie, were always told. Twenty years later, the triplets discover a box of their mother’s belongings that calls into question everything their father told them about their mother and her death. Reeling from this betrayal, the family returns to California, determined to uncover Olivia’s true fate.  Confronted by an unfamiliar world where nothing and no one are what they seem, the sisters must unravel the truth about their father and the mother who may have abandoned them, while struggling to hold onto the one constant in their lives—each other. 
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