Ava Anna Ada

<p><b>''Every bit as gripping as it is horrifying'' Ian Rankin</b><br><br><b>''So striking... like seeing our last few years through a distorted fever-dream'' Lucy Caldwell</b><br><br><b>''A bleeding, sweating story'' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br><b>''A bracingly original tale of lust and malice'' Rob Doyle</b><br><br><b>''A work of exquisite strangeness, unsettling and arresting'' Wendy Erskine</b><br><br><b>''An almost impossibly elegant evocation of violence, eroticism and derangement'' Keiran Goddard</b><br><br><i><br>How do we live at the end of the world?</i><br><br>Over the course of one claustrophobic week, in an eerie, sweltering English summer somewhere in the near-future, Anna meets Ava. As Anna grieves her dead daughter, a dying landscape and a future they might have shared, Ava''s mysterious pull swallows her whole. But what does Ava really want? Who are they both, really? And what are they to each other?<br><br>Braiding climate chaos, lust, politics, poetry and violence, <i>Ava Anna Ada</i> is a contemporary, dystopian fable, which asks us: what if the apocalypse has been and gone, and nobody noticed?<br><br><b>''A perverse, dark tale of shifting identities, deceit and manipulation''<br><i>Financial Times</i><br><br></b><b>''Shocking and uncompromising... visceral and vibrant; piercingly astute''</b><br><b>Miki Berenyi</b></p>