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Last One at the Party
- Author
- Bethany Clift
- Narrator
- Heather Long, Jane Collingwood
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date
- 4 February 2021
- Run Time
- 10 hours
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Fleabag meets I Am Legend in this extraordinary novel of one woman's survival in the face of the end of the world. Who will she be now that she is completely alone?
THE END OF EVERYTHING WAS HER BEGINNING
It's November 2022. The human race has been wiped out by the 6DM virus (Six Days Maximum - the longest you've got before your organs disintegrate and you melt from the inside out). The end of the world as we know it.
Yet someone is still alive. Alone in a new world of burning cities, rotting corpses and ravenous rats, one woman has survived. A woman who has spent her whole life compromising what she wants and hiding how she feels to meet other people's expectations. From her career to her relationships, to what she wears and where she lives, she's made a lifetime of decisions to fit what other people want her to be.
But with no one else left, who will she become now that she's completely alone?
(P) 2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Critics Review
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I adored this book . . . It's about who you are with nobody to witness you, what it means to be human, and how to live (the answer is getting plastered in Harrod's, something we can all relate to)
Gillian McAllister
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Brilliant. Creepy, witty, laugh-out-loud and shudder-inducing
Harriet Walker, author of The New Girl
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A fresh, frank, funny and surprisingly uplifting book about the end of the world
Elizabeth Kay, author of Seven Lies
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Finished this last night and haven't stopped thinking about it since! Possibly my fave read of 2020 - sharp, funny, emotional and a refreshingly different take on a post-apocalyptic world
Lisa Hall
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Really fun . . . like a dystopian Bridget Jones' Diary with echoes of Shaun of the Dead
Kate Sawyer
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Scary, emotional - and truly a novel for our times!
The Sun
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I haven't been so consumed by a book for a long time. This is a masterpiece of modern fiction, which I have raced through it in a few days. It has consumed my thoughts and will stay with me for a long time
Sophie Cousens
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This post-apocalyptic rollercoaster ride is full of belly-aching humour and the touching tale of a woman faced with the end of the world
Magic FM Book Club
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This dystopian novel is very funny, super-gory but a testament to the human spirit, which is also oddly life-affirming
Red Magazine
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I inhaled it in two sittings
Stylist
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Fast-paced, tragic, wholesome and laugh-out-loud funny, Clift's debut has left me grateful for the little things, excited for what else she has to offer - and making plans for my apocalypse bunker
On Magazine
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Thoroughly enjoyable and warmly recommended. Think of it as a literary version of 28 Days Later: terrifying, convincingly constructed, heart-pounding at times, often blackly funny
Irish Independent Review
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Amazing. Unsettling and dark and SO clever. One of the most unnerving books I've ever read
Cressida McLaughlin
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If you want something super original and mad and at times, both moving and VERY FUNNY, this is it
Cesca Major
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Last One At The Party is brilliant and creepy, yet surprisingly funny and feminist
Press Association
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A compelling, engaging, enthralling novel that keeps the reader turning the pages
Lancashire Times
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Funny but harrowing, unflinching and uplifting and so cinematic. I really loved it
Jennifer Saint
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You need to read this one. Darkly witty, but also deeply moving, this is a brilliant debut
Best Magazine
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A phenomenal book!!!! I've just finished it and am blown away . . . original, brutal, funny and hugely addictive! I just know I'm not going to be able to stop thinking about it for a long time
Emma Cooper
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Bethany Clift's Last One at the Party stands out as a bold and humorous take on the [pandemic-based fiction] genre.
Belfast Telegraph
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Tense
Grazia
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Funny and profanity-laden, you could call this "Bridget Jones Does the Apocalypse"
Financial Times
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A true pandemic page-turner, with a satisfactorily chilling end . . .
The Irish Times
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Plenty of style, originality and verve
Irish Sunday Independent
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Clift's novel is a riotous, black-humoured tonic to get you through this latest national lockdown
Independent
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There are no holds barred in this cracking, remorselessly funny debut
Daily Mail
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Clift has written a story that feels uniquely personal to its female protagonist. For all her lows, there are genuine highs, and for all her fears, there are wonders to counterbalance the desolation of her situation.
Culture Fly
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Very relatable - an incredibly up-to-date feel
SFX Magazine
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I obsessively read Last One at the Party - a novel about a horrifying pandemic which ends up being about female resourcefulness and the power of love
Julie Cohen
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Reading it will either help your mental health or provide extra nightmare fuel. Maybe both.
The New Zealand Listener
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The novel expertly walks the line between profane and thoughtful, and is as much about the why of surviving as it is about the how
FT.com
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A true pandemic page-turner, with a satisfactorily chilling end
TheGloss.ie
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A joyful, gutwrenching car crash of remorse, pluck, gross indulgence and shopping
Daily Mail
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So dark. So funny. So mad . . . A truly epic, apoca-f*cking-lyptic read
Beth Morrey
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Unforgettable and original and so many other things. Touching and poignant, crude and strangely voyeuristic, timely and deeply relatable. It had the power to make me reflect about so many things. Loved it. Five stars for sheer originality
Allie Reynolds
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Intense and fun and gruelling, I just couldn't put this novel down
Jenny Colgan
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Clift's gripping dystopia is terrifying but edged with anarchic humour
Daily Mail
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Details
- Author
- Bethany Clift
- Narrator
- Heather Long, Jane Collingwood
- Duration
- 10 hours
- Release Date
- 4 February 2021
- ISBN
- 9781529332155
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic, Humorous fiction
Synopsis
Specially adapted for audio by the author. Fleabag meets I Am Legend in this extraordinary novel of one woman's survival in the face of the end of the world. Who will she be now that she is completely alone?THE END OF EVERYTHING WAS HER BEGINNINGIt's November 2022. The human race has been wiped out by the 6DM virus (Six Days Maximum - the longest you've got before your organs disintegrate and you melt from the inside out). The end of the world as we know it.Yet someone is still alive. Alone in a new world of burning cities, rotting corpses and ravenous rats, one woman has survived. A woman who has spent her whole life compromising what she wants and hiding how she feels to meet other people's expectations. From her career to her relationships, to what she wears and where she lives, she's made a lifetime of decisions to fit what other people want her to be. But with no one else left, who will she become now that she's completely alone?(P) 2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
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