*Selected for 2022 previews by the Observer the Guardian the Daily Mail & the Irish
Times* 'Intriguingly strange' The Bookseller Editor's Choice In a single moment in
every part of the world every person with an Y chromosome vanishes: lovers children parents
- even foetuses from the womb. Jane Pearson wakes on a mountainside the next morning to find
her husband and son missing from their tent. Frantic and grieving she sets out to find the one
person she thinks can help - Evangelyne Moreau the brilliant charismatic leader of the
Commensalist Party of America whose heart she broke many years before. While Jane searches
for those she has lost a radically different society emerges one that seems - at first - to
be suddenly blissfully safer than what came before. And then The Men appears online: uncanny
video footage that shows the missing being herded through bizarre otherworldly landscapes. Is
it a hoax or could The Men hold the key to bringing back those who were lost? And if so what
might be the cost? From the author of The Heavens The Men is a gripping beautiful and
disquieting novel of impossible sacrifices that asks: what might we be prepared to give up to
create a better world?
