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The End of the Day
- Author
- Claire North
- Narrator
- Peter Kenny
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 6 April 2017
- Run Time
- 12 hours 22 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
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What to expect
'Funny, ambitious, immensely humane and full of philosophical panache' Sunday Times
'Extraordinary . . . wildly impressive" Lucy Hughes-Hallett, BBC Radio 4
'Wholly original and hauntingly beautiful' Kirkus
Sooner or later, death visits everyone. Before that, they meet Charlie.
Charlie meets everyone - but only once. 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 Claire North, the voice behind the word-of-mouth bestseller The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August.
'Reaffirms the passion and ambition that have made North such a consistently intriguing writer' Locus
'Every one of the chapters is shaped with philosophical panache' Guardian
'Compelling . . . keeps the surprises coming until the very end' San Francisco Chronicle
Critics Review
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Funny, ambitious, immensely humane and full of philosophical panache
SUNDAY TIMES
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Extraordinary . . . wildly impressive
Lucy Hughes-Hallett, BBC Radio 4
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Claire North's writing is terrific, smart and entertaining
Patrick Ness
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Wholly original and hauntingly beautiful
KIRKUS
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Reaffirms the passion and ambition that have made North such a consistently intriguing writer
LOCUS
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The End of the Day is [North's] most ambitious novel . . . Every one of the short 110 chapters is shaped with philosophical panache
GUARDIAN
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Poetic and imaginative . . . A thoroughly engaging and astute read
SCIFINOW
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A beautiful, if occasionally uncomfortable, read that resists being labeled with any particular genre
LIBRARY JOURNAL
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An exciting voice in contemporary fantasy . . . North adroitly sets the scenes and enlivens them with compelling, ironic dialogue, and she keeps the surprises coming until the very end
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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Claire North is a true original, a master of ingenious plotting and feats of imagination
Alex Marwood, author of THE WICKED GIRLS
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Details
- Author
- Claire North
- Narrator
- Peter Kenny
- Duration
- 12 hours 22 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 April 2017
- ISBN
- 9781405535250
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR 2017***'Funny, ambitious, immensely humane and full of philosophical panache' Sunday Times'Extraordinary . . . wildly impressive" Lucy Hughes-Hallett, BBC Radio 4'Wholly original and hauntingly beautiful' Kirkus Sooner or later, death visits everyone. Before that, they meet Charlie.Charlie meets everyone - but only once. 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 Claire North, the voice behind the word-of-mouth bestseller The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August.'Reaffirms the passion and ambition that have made North such a consistently intriguing writer' Locus'Every one of the chapters is shaped with philosophical panache' Guardian'Compelling . . . keeps the surprises coming until the very end' San Francisco Chronicle
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