{"title":"Megan Hunter","description":"Megan Hunter is a prizewinning novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. Her first novel, The End We Start From (2017) was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Books Are My Bag Awards, longlisted for the Aspen Words Prize, was a Barnes and Noble Discover Awards finalist and won the Foreword Reviews Editor's Choice Award. It was adapted into a major motion picture by Alice Birch, starring Jodie Comer and directed by Mahalia Belo. Her second novel, The Harpy (2020), was Indie Book of the Month; she is currently adapting it for television with Red Planet Pictures. In 2024 her dramatic monologue Salt of the Earth premiered at Venice Film Festival. Megan's other writing has appeared in the White Review, the TLS, Literary Hub, Vogue, Elle, BOMB, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, UK.","products":[{"product_id":"days-of-light-hardcover","title":"Days of Light - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A radiant, absorbing novel, intensely alive to the beauty and mystery of the everyday.\"--Joanna Quinn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe End We Start From, \u003c\/i\u003enow a major film starring Jodie Comer, and taking inspiration from the influential artists and intellectuals of the Bloomsbury Group, \u003ci\u003eDays of Light \u003c\/i\u003eis a sweeping, sensual historical novel of art, desire, and faith set against the backdrop of a changing England\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEaster Sunday, 1938. Ivy is nineteen and ready for her life to finally begin. Her sprawling, bohemian family and their friends gather in the idyllic English countryside for lunch, arranging themselves around well-worn roles. They trade political views and artistic arguments as they impatiently await the arrival and first sight of Frances, the new beau of Ivy's beloved older brother, Joseph. In this auspicious atmosphere of springtime, Ivy's world feels on the cusp of something grand-but neither she nor those closest to her predicts how a single, enchanted evening and an unexpected tragedy will alter the rest of their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA radiant, philosophical, and intimate journey through time, \u003ci\u003eDays of Light\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles six pivotal days across six decades to tell the story of Ivy's pursuit of answers--to the events of this fateful Easter Sunday and to the shifting desires of her own heart. Moving through the Second World War up to the close of the 20th century, Hunter captures the galvanic love and transformative moments that define a winding, beautiful life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103239114975,"sku":"9780802164773","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/iVWBIJiUl9780802164773.webp?v=1781090552"},{"product_id":"the-end-we-start-from-paperback","title":"The End We Start from - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JODIE COMER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Engrossing, compelling.\" -- Naomi Alderman, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Power\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I was moved, terrified, uplifted \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e sometimes all three at once.\" -- Tracy Chevalier, author of \u003ci\u003eGirl With a Pearl Earring\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublishing in the US to a wave of critical acclaim and nominations for two major literary prizes, Megan Hunter's internationally bestselling, extraordinarily poetic debut novel imagines new motherhood in the midst of an all-too-possible climate change catastrophe. A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, \u003ci\u003eThe End We Start From\u003c\/i\u003e is a searing original, a modern-day parable of rebirth and renewal, of maternal bonds, and the instinct to survive and thrive in the absence of all that's familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child, Z. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place. Their journey traces fear and wonder as the baby grows, thriving and content against all the odds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe End We Start From\u003c\/i\u003e is an indelible and elemental first book--a lyrical vision of the strangeness and beauty of new motherhood, and a tale of endurance in the face of ungovernable change.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104064835807,"sku":"9780802128591","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RgIf9gDArK9780802128591.webp?v=1781099965"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/megan-hunter.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}