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  • Published: 25 October 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241345276
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $19.99

Things to do Before the End of the World




Timely and powerful; the new coming-of-age thriller from the bestselling author of The One Memory of Flora Banks.

1. Live your best life.
2. Uncover family secrets.
3. Trust no one
What would you do when you hear the news that humans have done such damage to the earth that there might only be a limited amount of safe air left - a year's worth at most?
You'd work through your bucket list, heal rifts, do everything you've never been brave enough to do before?

Olivia is struggling to do any of this. What it is she truly wants to do? Who do she wants to be?

Then out of the blue comes contact from a long-lost cousin Olivia didn't even know existed. Natasha is everything Olivia wants to be and more. And as the girls meet up for a long, hot last summer, Olivia finds Natasha's ease and self-confidence having an effect on her.

But Natasha definitely isn't everything she first appears to be . . .


I walked home. I kept hearing footsteps behind me, but every time I turned around, no one was there.


Timely and powerful; this is the new coming-of-age thriller from the bestselling author of The One Memory of Flora Banks.

  • Published: 25 October 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241345276
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $19.99

About the author

Emily Barr

Emily Barr worked as a journalist in London but always hankered after a quiet room and a book to write. She went travelling for a year, which gave her an idea for a novel set in the world of backpackers in Asia. This became Backpack, an adult thriller which won the WH Smith New Talent Award, and she has since written eleven more adult novels published in the UK and around the world. The One Memory of Flora Banks is her first novel for young adults. She lives in Cornwall with her partner and their children.

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Praise for Things to do Before the End of the World

A pacy page-turner that packs a significant emotional punch

Guardian on The One Memory of Flora Banks

If you like dark fiction you'll devour it

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