Susie Mesure

The end of days: It Lasts Forever And Then It’s Over, by Anne de Marcken, reviewed

‘Don’t try to picture the apocalypse’, advises the novel’s unnamed zombie narrator. ‘Everything looks exactly the way you remembered it.’

Anne de Marcken.
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    Anne de Marcken

    Fitzcarraldo Editions, pp. 132, £10

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