Everything Happened at Once

<p><b>THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE RECORD-BREAKING AUTHOR OF <i>HUNGER </i></b><br><br><b>'An instant cult classic. You have to read it' <i>HARPER'S BAZAAR</i></b><br><br><b><i>What is the date today? Here, time doesn't pass in days. I wouldn't be surprised if spring slid straight into summer, if I looked at a clear lake and saw an old woman in my reflection.<br></i><br></b>A mutant virus has swept half of the world's population overnight. The known world has collapsed. The new world is a lawless place where children's livers are believed to provide immunity.<br><br>In one apartment block, an unlikely pack break out of quarantine in a stolen lorry and brave an achingly empty world once teeming with colour. The desolate reaches of Eurasia are signposted with fellow defectors and found family.<br><br>A wandering travel agent.<br>A mixed-race divorcee embracing her sacred desire.<br>A deaf girl traversing the frozen continent barefoot.<br><br><b>How do you find a way forward in a world turned upside down? A novel about our will to live and love until the very end, <i>Everything Happened at Once </i>charts the intimate landscapes of humans making liferafts out of the small miracles of the everyday.</b></p>