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Life goes on in the face of a climate crisis in this astonishing and unforgettable debut novel that follows four characters as they struggle to survive in a burning world. Even when the climate crisis escalates beyond our worst nightmares and people become refugees, the world keeps turning and life carries on as usual: teenaged love stories, marital collapses, identity crises, and revolts against hopeless parents continue to play out. Didrik is a forty-year-old media consultant whose misguided efforts to become the family hero render him a pathetic vision of masculine incompetence. Melissa is an influencer with a suitcase full of lost dreams after denying climate change for years. André is the nineteen-year-old loser son of an international sports star who uses the erupting violence around him to orchestrate his own personal vengeance on his negligent father. And Vilja is Didrik's teenaged daughter who steps into a leadership role in the face of adult ineptitude. ""Simultaneously nerve-wracking, astute, and consumedly entertaining"" (Sydsvenskan, Sweden) and through these four related stories, Even If Everything Ends eloquently illustrates a picture of a very near future that is at once extraordinary and entirely realistic.

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Jens Liljestrand is a critically acclaimed journalist and writer in his native Sweden. He has been a critic for the newspapers Sydsvenskan and Dagens Nyheter and was a long-serving editor of the culture section of Expressen. His bestselling biography about Vilhelm Moberg, The Man in the Woods, was nominated for the prestigious August Prize. Even If Everything Ends is his first novel. Imogen Wilde is a stage, film, and voice actor who graduated from Drama Studio London. She has toured in the UK and Ireland playing Lulu in The Birthday Party, has filmed two Rosamunde Pilcher adaptations for the German television channel ZDF, has performed at the Arcola and the Bunker Theatre, and has performed Shakespeare for children. As a voice artist, she narrates audiobooks for both children and adults. Matt Addis made his West End debut in Boeing-Boeing and toured internationally with Stones in His Pockets and When Harry Met Sally. His television credits include W1A, Queen Victoria's Men, Rose, Pobol y Cwm, and The British. Matt is a familiar voice to radio drama fans; his recent plays include The Complete George Smiley dramas, The Lady in the Van, and Pythonesque. He has narrated a number of chart-topping audiobooks, including Michael Innes's celebrated Inspector Appleby mysteries and Alexander Cordell's Mortymer trilogy. Tamsin Kennard is an in-demand narrator with a background in film and stage acting. Joe Jameson is an experienced stage and screen actor and audiobook narrator. A graduate of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, he has narrated nearly 150 audiobooks and has worked extensively at Shakespeare's Globe, the Royal Exchange, and the Soho Theatre, among others. He can also be seen in ITV's Grantchester.

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