Last One at the Party: this year's most original and unforgettable debut

By: Bethany Clift

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Synopsis: THE END OF EVERYTHING WAS HER BEGINNINGIt's December 2023 and the world as we know it has ended.The human race has been wiped out by a virus called 6DM ('Six Days Maximum' - the longest you've got before your body destroys itself). But somehow, in London, one woman is still alive. A woman who has spent her whole life compromising what she wants, hiding how she feels and desperately trying to fit in. A woman who is entirely unprepared to face a future on her own.Now, with only an abandoned golden retriever for company, she must travel through burning cities, avoiding rotting corpses and ravenous rats on a final journey to discover if she really is the last surviving person on earth.And with no one else to live for, who will she become now that she's completely alone?***'I adored this book . . . It's about who you are with nobody to witness you, what it means to be human, and how to live' Gillian McAllister'Sharp, funny, emotional and a refreshingly different take on a post-apocalyptic world' Lisa Hall'A fresh, frank, funny and surprisingly uplifting book about the end of the world' Elizabeth Kay