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The End of the Day

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24th August 2017

Price: £9.99

The Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award, 2017

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780356507330

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***SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD***

‘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


Works by Claire North:

Novels:
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Touch
The Sudden Appearance of Hope
The End of the Day
84K
The Gameshouse
The Pursuit of William Abbey

Digital novellas:
The Serpent: Gameshouse Novella 1
The Thief: Gameshouse Novella 2
The Master: Gameshouse Novella 3

Reviews

LIBRARY JOURNAL
A beautiful, if occasionally uncomfortable, read that resists being labeled with any particular genre
KIRKUS
Wholly original and hauntingly beautiful
SCIFINOW
Poetic and imaginative . . . A thoroughly engaging and astute read
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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
LOCUS
Reaffirms the passion and ambition that have made North such a consistently intriguing writer
SUNDAY TIMES
Funny, ambitious, immensely humane and full of philosophical panache
Patrick Ness
Claire North's writing is terrific, smart and entertaining
GUARDIAN
The End of the Day is [North's] most ambitious novel . . . Every one of the short 110 chapters is shaped with philosophical panache
Lucy Hughes-Hallett, BBC Radio 4
Extraordinary . . . wildly impressive
Alex Marwood, author of THE WICKED GIRLS
Claire North is a true original, a master of ingenious plotting and feats of imagination