A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival and an unforgettable dystopian vision of
a familiar world in flames Shortlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize 2024 A Spectator Book
of the Year 2024 'Impossible to put down' Daily Telegraph '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 'Left me breathless: it is a
stunning poetic impelling story of love and survival which I could not stop reading ... An
incredible novel' Jodie Whittaker ______________________________________ The world is on
fire. And what will you do? In a city rocked by global catastrophe home-grown terrorism
shortages and wildfires Cass is quietly raising three small children by herself. Her husband
Nathaniel has left to serve as a medic in a war overseas. As life in the city becomes
increasingly impossible Cass knows she can no longer wait for Nathaniel's return. Packing up
their lives she and the children set off in search of a place of greater safety. But Cass
will learn that not all promises and not all sanctuaries are what they seem - and as the fires
around them begin to close in she'll discover just how far she'll go for her children in a
world teetering on apocalypse. Sensual claustrophobic and vivid Briefly Very Beautiful
announces the arrival of a major new talent painting an unforgettable portrait of a mother
trying to hold her family together. ______________________________________________
'Beautiful and timely tough yet tender ...This is an important book and I devoured it' Clover
Stroud 'Gorgeous fierce and haunting ... A book that is quite literally on fire. Very
beautiful and all-too brief' Catherine Taylor 'A story that burns from the page. Dineen
writes about motherhood and the climate crisis with piercing clarity' Amy Twigg author of
Spoilt Creatures 'A haunting vision of our slow-motion apocalypse. This is exactly what it
will be like' Michael LaPointe author of The Creep
