Hunter, Megan
Entry updated 1 September 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1984- ) UK poet and author whose first novel, The End We Start From (2017), sets an intimate story involving childbirth and childcare in straitened circumstances against an increasingly intrusive Near Future backdrop. The protagonist mother's waters breaking, and the rapid flooding of London as systems collapse due to Climate Change, are metaphorically joined with some efficiency. The young mother eventually escapes northwards through a post-Cosy Catastrophe landscape to a Scottish Island. The three-part revenge enacted by the protagonist of The Harpy (2020), though couched in mythical terms, is nonfantastic. [JC]
Megan Hunter
born Manchester, England: 1984
works (selected)
- The End We Start From (London: Picador, 2017) [hb/Kazuko Nomoto]
- The Harpy (London: Picador, 2020) [hb/Amy Judd]
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