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The End of Men
- Author
- Christina Sweeney-Baird
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 29 April 2021
- Run Time
- 12 hours 4 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
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What to expect
‘A FIERCELY INTELLIGENT PAGE-TURNER’ PAULA HAWKINS
‘WRITTEN PRE-COVID – GRIPPING, SCARY AND PERSUASIVE’ IAN RANKIN
‘THE STUFF THAT CLASSICS ARE MADE OF’ A.J. FINN
‘GRIPPING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN. WHAT A DEBUT!’ SARAH PEARSE, author of The Sanatorium
‘BRILLIANT, PRESCIENT, UNPUTDOWNABLE’ JENNY COLGAN
‘AN ENGROSSING DEBUT’ STYLIST
‘HUGE IN SCOPE…AS TENSE AS THE TAUTEST THRILLER’ RED
‘THE MOST BUZZED-ABOUT FICTION FOR 2021’ SUNDAY TIMES STYLE
‘AN UNFLINCHINGLY PACY MUST-READ’ GRAZIA
‘AN UNFORGETTABLE DEBUT’PRIMA
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GLASGOW, 2025. Dr Amanda Maclean is called to treat a young man with a mild fever. Within three hours he dies. The mysterious illness sweeps through the hospital with deadly speed. This is how it begins.
The victims are all men.
Dr Maclean raises the alarm, but the sickness spreads to every corner of the globe. Threatening families. Governments. Countries.
Can they find a cure before it’s too late? Will this be the story of the end of the world – or its salvation?
Compelling, confronting and devastating, The End of Men is the novel that everyone is talking about.
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‘A POWERFUL, GRIPPING BOOK THAT HAS MADE ME FEEL A LITTLE BIT BETTER ABOUT THE WORLD WE ARE LIVING IN RIGHT NOW’ BRYONY GORDON
‘FRIGHTENINGLY PRESCIENT… A COMPELLING, MOVING AND INTELLIGENT PAGE-TURNER’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
‘A TOUR DE FORCE – A FEMINIST REIMAGINING OF SOCIETY’ GILLIAN MCALLISTER
‘COMPELLING AND HEART-BREAKING. A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT’ ABI DARÉ
‘PACY, EMOTIVE, THOUGHT-PROVOKING AND ULTIMATELY A REMINDER OF THE STRENGTH OF LOVE AND HUMAN CONNECTION’ C.D. MAJOR
'A REMARKABLY PRESCIENT, WHIP-SMART, AND STRANGELY HOPEFUL NOVEL' CHARLOTTE PHILBY
‘DEVASTATING, PRESCIENT, COMPELLING AND CONFRONTING’ LAURA JANE WILLIAMS
‘GRIPPING, MOVING AND SCARILY PRESCIENT. COULDN’T PUT IT DOWN’ CHARLOTTE NORTHEDGE, AUTHOR OF THE HOUSE GUEST
‘MOVING, THOUGHT-PROVOKING AND TERRIFYINGLY PRESCIENT’ TAMMY COHEN
‘TOPICAL, TIMELY, IMAGINATIVE AND ULTIMATELY HOPEFUL’ KATIE KHAN, AUTHOR OF HOLD BACK THE STARS
'AN INCREDIBLE ACHIEVEMENT – BOTH A BREATH-TAKING FEAT OF IMAGINATION AND A WISE, STEADY EYE ON THE WORLD AS IT IS' JESSICA MOOR, AUTHOR OF THE KEEPER
Critics Review
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‘The stuff that classics are made of’ A.J. FINN
‘A fiercely intelligent page-turner, at once thoughtful and highly emotive’ PAULA HAWKINS
‘Gripping, scary and persuasive’ IAN RANKIN
‘Gripping…a beautifully written page-turner’ SARAH PEARSE, AUTHOR OF THE SANATORIUM
‘A powerful book that has made me feel a little bit better about the world we are living in right now’ BRYONY GORDON
‘I ripped through this. It’s pacey, devastating, prescient, compelling and confronting…a sure-fire hit, and rightly so’ LAURA JANE WILLIAMS
‘It is scary how prescient and relevant this is…compelling and heart-breaking. A remarkable achievement’ ABI DARÉ
‘Brilliant, prescient and unputdownable’ JENNY COLGAN
‘A tour de force – a feminist reimagining of society’ GILLIAN MCALLISTER
‘One of the best books I’ve ever read’ ANSTEY HARRIS
‘Moving, thought-provoking and terrifyingly prescient. I talked of nothing else for days!’ TAMMY COHEN
‘Pacy, emotive, thought-provoking and ultimately a reminder of the strength of love and human connection’ C.D. MAJOR
'A remarkably prescient, whip-smart, and strangely hopeful novel' CHARLOTTE PHILBY
‘Gripping, moving and scarily prescient. Couldn’t put it down’ CHARLOTTE NORTHEDGE
‘Topical, timely, imaginative and ultimately hopeful’ KATIE KHAN
'An incredible achievement' JESSICA MOOR
‘Expect big things from The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird. Sold in a six-figure deal, there is also a major film in the pipeline’ SUNDAY EXPRESS
‘Chillingly prescient’ SUNDAY TIMES SCOTLAND
‘THE MOST BUZZED-ABOUT FICTION FOR 2021’ SUNDAY TIMES STYLE
‘HUGE IN SCOPE…AS TENSE AS THE TAUTEST THRILLER’ RED
‘AN UNFLINCHINGLY PACY MUST-READ’ GRAZIA
‘AN UNFORGETTABLE DEBUT’ PRIMA
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Details
- Author
- Christina Sweeney-Baird
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 12 hours 4 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 April 2021
- ISBN
- 9780008407957
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Thriller / suspense fiction, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss, Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Synopsis
‘A FIERCELY INTELLIGENT PAGE-TURNER’ PAULA HAWKINS ‘WRITTEN PRE-COVID – GRIPPING, SCARY AND PERSUASIVE’ IAN RANKIN ‘THE STUFF THAT CLASSICS ARE MADE OF’ A.J. FINN ‘GRIPPING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN. WHAT A DEBUT!’ SARAH PEARSE, author of The Sanatorium ‘BRILLIANT, PRESCIENT, UNPUTDOWNABLE’ JENNY COLGAN ‘AN ENGROSSING DEBUT’ STYLIST ‘HUGE IN SCOPE…AS TENSE AS THE TAUTEST THRILLER’ RED ‘THE MOST BUZZED-ABOUT FICTION FOR 2021’ SUNDAY TIMES STYLE ‘AN UNFLINCHINGLY PACY MUST-READ’ GRAZIA ‘AN UNFORGETTABLE DEBUT’PRIMA________________________________________________________ GLASGOW, 2025. Dr Amanda Maclean is called to treat a young man with a mild fever. Within three hours he dies. The mysterious illness sweeps through the hospital with deadly speed. This is how it begins. The victims are all men. Dr Maclean raises the alarm, but the sickness spreads to every corner of the globe. Threatening families. Governments. Countries. Can they find a cure before it’s too late? Will this be the story of the end of the world – or its salvation? Compelling, confronting and devastating, The End of Men is the novel that everyone is talking about.________________________________________________________ ‘A POWERFUL, GRIPPING BOOK THAT HAS MADE ME FEEL A LITTLE BIT BETTER ABOUT THE WORLD WE ARE LIVING IN RIGHT NOW’ BRYONY GORDON ‘FRIGHTENINGLY PRESCIENT… A COMPELLING, MOVING AND INTELLIGENT PAGE-TURNER’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ‘A TOUR DE FORCE – A FEMINIST REIMAGINING OF SOCIETY’ GILLIAN MCALLISTER ‘COMPELLING AND HEART-BREAKING. A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT’ ABI DARÉ ‘PACY, EMOTIVE, THOUGHT-PROVOKING AND ULTIMATELY A REMINDER OF THE STRENGTH OF LOVE AND HUMAN CONNECTION’ C.D. MAJOR 'A REMARKABLY PRESCIENT, WHIP-SMART, AND STRANGELY HOPEFUL NOVEL' CHARLOTTE PHILBY ‘DEVASTATING, PRESCIENT, COMPELLING AND CONFRONTING’ LAURA JANE WILLIAMS ‘GRIPPING, MOVING AND SCARILY PRESCIENT. COULDN’T PUT IT DOWN’ CHARLOTTE NORTHEDGE, AUTHOR OF THE HOUSE GUEST ‘MOVING, THOUGHT-PROVOKING AND TERRIFYINGLY PRESCIENT’ TAMMY COHEN ‘TOPICAL, TIMELY, IMAGINATIVE AND ULTIMATELY HOPEFUL’ KATIE KHAN, AUTHOR OF HOLD BACK THE STARS 'AN INCREDIBLE ACHIEVEMENT – BOTH A BREATH-TAKING FEAT OF IMAGINATION AND A WISE, STEADY EYE ON THE WORLD AS IT IS' JESSICA MOOR, AUTHOR OF THE KEEPER
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