(What? This is not evocative of Pet Semetary at all!)

A tough read, one of those reads that is tough precisely because it does the things it sets out to do and does them well. A beautiful near future apocalyptic tale of death and loss and grief in the face of rising natural and social catastrophe, the cruelest thing this does, beyond making characters you come to love go through hell, is offer out a richly imagined tendril of hope through transformation. Damn you, Helen Marsall. That hurts. Well done.