Philip Gwyn Jones has closed a deal with Sarah Davis-Goff at Tramp press for this remarkable debut. Here is Gethan's marvellous quote from the press release about writing the book:

"I’ve always been interested in the end of the world. Long before I had kids, I was certain there was something about the idea of pregnancy and childbirth beyond the apocalypse – I talked for twenty years about writing a post-apocalyptic novel, and then in the first lockdown we ended up living for two months in a stone shepherd’s cabin on Mont Sainte Victoire.

It was twenty metres square and we had no electricity, no running water, no toilet, and the roof leaked. It was cold – we had brought a tent and we put it up indoors as insulation for the kids to sleep in (they were 6 and 4 at the time).

I came back from those months having had a few revelations, including but not limited to: 1. I will never again denigrate or minimise the importance of the work that goes into finishing the day with the ones you love warm, dry, fed and clean – it is the stuff of life. 2. It would be really annoying if the world actually ended without me having written my book about the end of the world."

Gethan Dick's dazzling debut sold to Tramp Press