Megan Hunter's 'The End We Start From' could be viewed as a more optimistic version of Cormac McCarthy's frighteningly bleak post-apocalypse novel 'The Road'. The narrator of this novel is a woman on the verge of experiencing what should be the joys of childbirth for the first time in her life in London. Things take a menacingly sinister turn when she and her husband must flee for their very lives towards dry land northwards when Biblical floods enter the picture. In this short text Hunter succeeds in drawing a mesmerizing picture of a vulnerable woman's quest to satisfy a most urgent need,
whilst sustaining an atmosophere of suspense when both human and environmental factors are never what they seem. An elegant and minimalist work-- and very credible, too.
The End We Start From --- Eternal Beginnings
Megan Hunter's 'The End We Start From' could be viewed as a more optimistic version of Cormac McCarthy's frighteningly bleak post-apocalypse novel 'The Road'. The narrator of this novel is a woman on the verge of experiencing what should be the joys of childbirth for the first time in her life in London. Things take a menacingly sinister turn when she and her husband must flee for their very lives towards dry land northwards when Biblical floods enter the picture. In this short text Hunter succeeds in drawing a mesmerizing picture of a vulnerable woman's quest to satisfy a most urgent need, whilst sustaining an atmosophere of suspense when both human and environmental factors are never what they seem. An elegant and minimalist work-- and very credible, too.