The world is burning and the sixth mass extinction is under way. When Anna’s finger disappears, and then a short while later her knee, she thinks curiously little of it. But then she begins to notice disappearances everywhere, and all around people refuse to see what is really happening. The Booker Prize winner’s eighth novel is a raging tale about grief and loss that asks existential questions – is prolonging death the same as living? Will we refuse to see the flames? – but which contains moments of stillness and magic, too.
Chatto & Windus, 304pp, £16.99
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