The Age of Miracles - the most thought-provoking end-of-the-world coming-of-age book club novel you'll read this year (Paperback, Reissue)

'A stunner from the first page - an end-of-the-world, coming-of-age tale of quiet majesty. I loved this novel ' Justin Cronin, author of The Passage WHAT IF our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours until day becomes night and night becomes day? What effect would this slowing have on the world? On the birds in the sky, the whales in the sea, the astronauts in space, and on an eleven-year-old girl, grappling with emotional changes in her own life...? One morning, Julia and her parents wake up in their suburban home in California to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth is noticeably slowing. The enormity of this is almost beyond comprehension. And yet, even if the world is, in fact, coming to an end, as some assert, day-to-day life must go on. Julia, facing the loneliness and despair of an awkward adolescence, witnesses the impact of this phenomenon on the world, on the community, on her family and on herself. 'It is never what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophies are always different - unimagined, unprepared for, unknown...'

General

Imprint:	Scribner UK
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2019
Authors:	Karen Thompson Walker
Dimensions:	198 x 130 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	400
Edition:	Reissue
ISBN-13:	978-1-4711-7799-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-4711-7799-8
Barcode:	9781471177996

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