Instantly immersive, beautifully imagined, this is an unflinching but inspiring story about some things we're going to lose, and other things we must never lose

LEE CHILD

The best novel I have read this year ... In the tradition of haunting dystopian fiction by women (Doris Lessing, Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood), Briefly Very Beautiful is a poetic and sensual page-turner that perfectly captures motherhood on the brink of apocalypse

SPECTATOR, Books of the Year

Dineen is an extraordinary writer

EVENING STANDARD, The best books to read this summer

Impossible to put down ... Hauntingly realistic, disturbing, stylish, raw and urgent

DAILY TELEGRAPH

A disturbing but ultimately hopeful dystopian novel

GRAZIA

A haunting vision of our slow-motion apocalypse. This is exactly what it will be like

MICHAEL LaPOINTE, author of The Creep