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In the Beginning

In the Beginning

by Simon Edge
Paperback
Publication Date: 08/06/2023

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From the author of The End of the World is Flat

The Terg wars are over. Now meet the Yerfs

'Brilliant! Perfectly captures both the absurdity and horror of this madness'. Gareth Roberts.

When Tara Farrier returns to the UK after a long spell as an aid worker in war-torn Yemen, she’s hoping for a well-deserved rest.

But a cultural battleground has emerged while she’s been away, and she’s unprepared for the sensitivities of her new colleagues at an international thinktank. A throwaway reference to volcanic activity millions of years ago gets her into hot water and she discovers she belongs to the group reviled by fashionable activists as ‘Young Earth Rejecting Fascists’, or ‘Yerfs’. Faster than she can say ‘Tyrannosaurus Rex’, she is at the centre of a gruelling legal drama.

In the keenly awaited follow-up to his acclaimed The End of the World is Flat, Simon Edge stabs once again at modern crank beliefs and herd behaviour with stiletto-sharp satire.

ISBN:
9781785633546
9781785633546
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
08-06-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Eye Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
336
Dimensions (mm):
196.85x127x25.4mm
Weight:
0.31kg

Hilarious, horrifying and deliciously perverse – In the Beginning captures the modern world and shines a bright light at its imperfections’.
Christina Dalcher, author of Vox

‘Brilliant! Totally gripping, perfectly capturing both the absurdity and horror of this madness. I laughed out loud lots ans I got quite emotional – with both anger and joy.’
Gareth Roberts, author of Gay Shame

‘Simon Edge is Britain’s leading exponent of Horatian satire. Yes, he likes his characters, but also sees through them – and us, his readers – with pellucid insight’.
Helen Dale

‘The world is not beyond satire. I know this thanks to Simon Edge’.
Jonathan Kay, Quillette

Simon Edge

Simon Edge was born in Chester and read philosophy at Cambridge University. He was editor of the pioneering London paper Capital Gay before becoming a gossip columnist on the Evening Standard and then a feature writer on the Daily Express, where he was also a theatre critic for many years.

He has an MA in Creative Writing from City University, London, where he also taught literary criticism. He is the author of five novels: The Hopkins Conundrum, longlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award, The Hurtle of Hell, A Right Royal Face-Off, Anyone for Edmund? and The End of the World is Flat.

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