The Last Day will keep you gripped to the very last page’ C.J.Andrew Hunter Murray is a bit of an all-rounder. a compelling read with some well-placed observations on the darkness of human nature and survival. The dystopian world is incredibly well realised, the characters are well drawn and the plot is nail-bitingly tense’ IRISH TIMES ’I loved the premise of this high-concept thriller. I couldn’t put this book down!’ CHRISTINA DALCHER, author of VOX ’Brilliant debut novel. A near-perfect alternate-future thriller.’ BOOKLIST ’Dark, believable and brilliantly written’ JENNY COLGAN ’A thrilling page-turner, and a reminder to treasure our sunsets and sunrises while we still have them. The science is believable, the near-future world feels as real as our own, the characters are lively, and the plot is suspenseful. an interesting new twist on a post-apocalyptic tale.’ KIRKUS ’Downright impossible to stop reading. Fans of Robert Harris will love it’ DAILY EXPRESS ’To say it’s gripping is an understatement - I cancelled all my weekend plans to finish it’ SARA PASCOE ’In his fascinating debut, Murray has crafted something original. A fabulous achievement.’ STEPHEN FRY ’A brilliantly clever thriller from a brilliantly clever writer.’ RICHARD OSMAN ’A brilliant debut. Its intelligence and bravura characterisation will have you turning page after page. Murray has so thoroughly thought through the ramifications of his conceit and conjured up such a dramatic plot and stellar cast of characters that he might have set a new standard for such tales.’ WASHINGTON POST ’A stunningly original thriller set in the world of tomorrow that will make you think about what’s happening today.’ HARLAN COBEN ’I read this hungrily. _ ’Wonderful: boldly imagined and beautifully written - the best future-shock thriller for years.’ LEE CHILD ’A tantalizing, suspenseful odyssey of frustration, deceit, treachery, torture, hope, despair and ingenious sleuthing. John Mandel’s Station 11, and The Wall by John Lanchester. _ THE LAST DAY: an utterly original debut thriller, perfect for readers who loved Robert Harris’ Fatherland, Emily St. One that those in power will kill to conceal. It contains a powerful and dangerous secret. In an isolationist Britain, scientist Ellen Hopper receives a letter from a dying man.
Only in a slim twilit region between them can life survive. One half suffers an endless frozen night the other, nothing but burning sun.
_ ’A beautifully realised and thought-provoking thriller.’ THE TIMES ’A taut, thrilling runaround’ GUARDIAN ’Reminiscent of Robert Harris’s high-concept conspiracy thrillers’ FINANCIAL TIMES _ A WORLD HALF IN DARKNESS. The Last Day : The Sunday Times bestseller and one of their best books of 2020
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