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I enjoyed The Stranding a lot. It's quite unusual to have such a compelling family narrative in post-apoc, and it's so constrained! There's hardly any characters in it. Kate Sawyer is a theatre person and I think that comes through really clearly in the novel, because it's so physically constrained and she's got such fantastic visuals like the hut made out of the whale skeleton - I can easily see this being a great stage play. Thought to myself a few times reading it "is this what The Road could have been like if Cormac McCarthy knew a single thing about women?"
bothwell
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The Stranding is Gripping.
jumping between a woman's life and relationships surviving in London, with her life and relationships in a post apocalyptic New Zealand.
Compelling that juxtaposition