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Roz Dineen\u2019s Briefly Very Beautiful is a spellbinding dystopian novel about the lengths one will go to for their children in a world teetering on the edge of apocalypse.
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In a land destabilized by unsafe air, wildfires, floods, viruses, supply shortages, and homegrown terror, Cass is raising three small children by herself in the city. Her husband, Nathaniel, has gone all too willingly to serve as a medic in an overseas war.

His absence, and Cass\u2019s isolation, has brought her into an exhausted but harmonious rhythm with the children; while it\u2019s a frightening time, there is also a surprising, quiet tenderness in living on the edge of societal collapse.
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When things start to feel more dangerous in the city, Cass evacuates with the children to her mother-in-law\u2019s house deep in the countryside. Initially, it\u2019s a place of safety, but her mother-in-law\u2019s erratic behavior and increasing grip over the children worries Cass, and so they flee again to a commune on the coast. It\u2019s an idyllic place, but Cass comes to suspect this seemingly harmonious community has a dark underbelly.
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Briefly Very Beautiful is a magnetic novel about love and resilience. Against a wider backdrop of a world imploding, it is an exploration of hope and fear, beauty and joy, as well as seismic betrayal.

Roz Dineen\u2019s lush prose combines with epic and precise world-building to create a society that feels at once unrecognizable but deeply, chillingly familiar. The result is a compelling portrait of what it is to parent through apocalypse.

Roz Dineen was an editor at the Times Literary Supplement for 12 years, serving as fiction editor and later features editor. She has also written extensively for the Times Literary Supplement, where her essays and reviews have covered a range of topics from addiction to motherhood, from Jonathan Franzen to J. G. Ballard and Sally Rooney. She studied English literature at Trinity College, Dublin, received a master\u2019s degree in international studies and diplomacy from SOAS, London.

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