The End of Men

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The End of Men

By: Christina Sweeney-Baird, DeNica Fairman

Narrated by: Rebecca Perfect, William Hope, Penelope Rawlins, Debra Michaels, Julia Locascio, Sasha Alexis, Robert Bradley, Sara Lynam, Aysha Kala, Cathleen McCarron, DeNica Fairman

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‘A FIERCELY INTELLIGENT PAGE-TURNER’ PAULA HAWKINS

‘WRITTEN PRE-COVID – GRIPPING, SCARY AND PERSUASIVE’ IAN RANKIN

‘THE STUFF THAT CLASSICS ARE MADE OF’ A.J. FINN

‘GRIPPING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN. WHAT A DEBUT!’ SARAH PEARSE, author of The Sanatorium

‘BRILLIANT, PRESCIENT, UNPUTDOWNABLE’ JENNY COLGAN

‘AN ENGROSSING DEBUT’ STYLIST

‘HUGE IN SCOPE…AS TENSE AS THE TAUTEST THRILLER’ RED

‘THE MOST BUZZED-ABOUT FICTION FOR 2021’ SUNDAY TIMES STYLE

‘AN UNFLINCHINGLY PACY MUST-READ’ GRAZIA

‘AN UNFORGETTABLE DEBUT’PRIMA
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GLASGOW, 2025. Dr Amanda Maclean is called to treat a young man with a mild fever. Within three hours he dies. The mysterious illness sweeps through the hospital with deadly speed. This is how it begins.

The victims are all men.

Dr Maclean raises the alarm, but the sickness spreads to every corner of the globe. Threatening families. Governments. Countries.

Can they find a cure before it’s too late? Will this be the story of the end of the world – or its salvation?

Compelling, confronting and devastating, The End of Men is the novel that everyone is talking about.
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Christina Sweeney-BairdDeNica FairmanRebecca PerfectWilliam HopePenelope RawlinsDebra MichaelsJulia LocascioSasha AlexisRobert BradleySara LynamAysha KalaCathleen McCarronDeNica FairmanThe Borough Press

Dystopian

Family Life

Genre Fiction

Hard Science Fiction

Post-Apocalyptic

Science Fiction

Women's Fiction

Fiction

Thought-Provoking

Tear-jerking

Dystopian Family Life Genre Fiction Hard Science Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Women's Fiction Fiction Thought-Provoking Tear-jerking

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Beautiful, thoughtful, thought provoking.

Loved:
💜The intricacy of this novel is staggering, imagining the impact of men’s disappearance from society down to the last electrician.
🎧Excellent production. Having a book read by eleven separate voices felt decadent in the best possible way and made it much easier to differentiate between the many characters.
💛Small moments made a big impact. A memorable one for me involved a female character scaring off an aggressive male, a scenario that turned the usual post-apocalyptic dynamic on its head.
💚In what I can only describe as sorcery, I came away from a book about a devastating plague feeling uplifted.

Could have Loved More:

I wouldn’t change a thing,

Shall I compare thee to:

A World War Z style telling of a Children of Men style disaster with the conscience of A Handmaid’s Tale. I went too far, didn't I…

<b>Other thoughts: </b>

In an extra tidbit, the accuracy of this book in describing life under a pandemic is all the more impressive given that Christina Sweeney-Baird finished it in 2019.