The End of the World Running Club
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4.4 • 17 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
The world ended overnight. But for one man, the real journey is just beginning.
Separated from his family by over five hundred miles of devastation, Edgar Hill must run through the ruins of Britain—or risk losing everything.
When a catastrophic asteroid strike shatters the UK, Edgar, a disengaged father and reluctant husband, is left stranded on the wrong side of the country. Cities are in ruins. The roads are gone. Violence and chaos rule. His only chance to reunite with his family? Running.
What begins as an act of desperation becomes a brutal, redemptive odyssey across a broken land. The End of the World Running Club is a visceral, deeply human tale of transformation, endurance, and the long road to becoming someone worth fighting for.
If The Road gave you chills and Station Eleven broke your heart, you’ll devour this international bestseller that the New York Times calls “a fresh and frighteningly real take on what ‘the end’ might be.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Walker's ambitious debut novel offers a gripping portrayal of a postapocalyptic world. This type of end-of-the-world story has been told before, but rarely with the intensity and believability that Walker creates here. Edgar Hill, a lazy, unhappy man, lives with his family in Edinburgh, Scotland, when an asteroid barrage strikes Earth, destroying modern civilization. Unprepared physically or mentally for the widespread death and destruction that follows, Edgar must finally face his responsibilities as a husband and father, and he knows he won't measure up. Clustered with a few surviving civilians and soldiers, Edgar is separated from his family when they are evacuated by a rescue helicopter, leaving Edgar and six others behind. Without hope of rescue, the six men and one woman flee to the south, across a landscape of chaos and despair. Edgar and the others must run to get to Cornwall, 450 miles away, chasing a rumor of sanctuary and seaborne evacuation, pursued by killers and gangs of murderous survivors driven mad by desperation and hopeless resignation. Edgar has never run in his life, but is determined to reunite with his family, and so sets a remarkable example of endurance and self-sacrifice for the others. This is a wholly convincing and exciting novel.
