Eve

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A powerful novel of mothers and daughters, and how we imagine our future, from acclaimed author of BECOMING UNBECOMING

‘A disturbing and necessary book for our times … Una has held up a chilling mirror for us, and leaves us with a choice – what kind of world will we make for ourselves?’ JACKY FLEMING

In the near future, in a world that seems just like our own, Eve grows up in a loving family that is increasingly threatened by a society which seems to be sleepwalking into totalitarianism. After a catastrophe that changes everything, Eve must set off on her own, over the wild Yorkshire moors, to try to find a new way to live.

Eve is a book of mothers, daughters, human relationships, trust and community, human weakness, conflict, hopeful futures and painful pasts. It is speculative fiction that feels incredible timely: Una explores the rise of authoritarianism on both the political right and left and imagines where it might all lead.

‘As with all good speculative fiction, it predicts a set of circumstances that are rooted in reality so could easily happen, and often do’ BIG ISSUE NORTH

‘A prescient tale of gender, the environment and a dystopian future’ WINNIE M LI

‘Big, imaginative and confrontational‘ STRONG WORDS

‘EVE’s gripping narrative and poetic, haunting imagery of a world sliding into dystopia has stayed with me’ MOMA.CO.UK