- Published: 1 August 2011
- ISBN: 9781446484234
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 304
Then
- Published: 1 August 2011
- ISBN: 9781446484234
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 304
Then is a bold, uncompromising book that marks out Myerson as a truly interesting and risk-taking author... grippingly good
Elizabeth Day, Observer
Then is a devastatingly dark story, and the hypnotic quality of its writing, and the searing vision it lays before us, certainly appear to have sprung from a deep and frightening source
Rosemary Goring, Sunday Herald
A daring and dazzling performance
John Harding, Daily Mail
A really compelling story
Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday
An addictively readable feat of imagination
Lionel Shriver
At first this genre-bending novel feels like a departure for Myerson, but familiar themes kick in – injured children, broken homes, psychological torment. It’s a chilling and original portrait of breakdown
Emma Hagestadt, Independent
Julie Myerson offers a haunting twist on Armageddon... A chillingly persuasive vision of emotional hell
Adrian Turpin, Financial Times
Myerson displays a deft touch at providing the reader with telling, troubling details, clues to what might have happened. Unremittingly bleak, Then is a novel about memory as a woman tries to piece together the fragments of her past
Tina Jackson, Metro
One of Myerson's strength's lies in creating atmosphere... Myerson sees the pathos in small details
Independent
The eeriness of the world outside is conveyed well; as are the horrors that beset the survivors... It is highly readable and involving, offering tantalising clues as the reader tries to navigate the grisly streets of London and the dark corners of the narrator's mind...but the central human narrative is strong and clear, proving that even in darkness there are points of light
Philip Womack, Daily Telegraph
This is writing that takes the breath away... I cannot praise this staggeringly accomplished work highly enough
Virginia Blackburn, Sunday Express