Christina Sweeney-Baird was born in 1993 and grew up in London and Glasgow. She studied Law at the University of Cambridge and graduated with a First in 2015. She works as a corporate litigation lawyer in London. The End of Men is her first novel.
One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Science Fiction Books of the
Year
"Christina Sweeney-Baird's dystopian fantasy imagines the profound
impact of another virus." —The Wall Street Journal
“Sharp, timely and terrifying.”--New York Post
“[A] chilling dystopian debut thriller. . . Sweeney-Baird’s look
inside the heads of these and other shocked, desperate characters
and her portrait of a bizarre new world are both thought- and
fear-provoking. Readers will either wolf this down or elect to stay
miles away from it, but controversy moves titles off the shelf. A
top choice.”--Booklist (starred review)
"Philosophically sweeping and emotionally intimate. . . [The]
personal politics and gender dynamics are spot-on, and readers will
feel connected to the main characters’ struggles and resilience.
Sweeney-Baird is a writer to watch.”--Publishers Weekly
"Unsettlingly prescient."--Kirkus Reviews
"Compelling and passionate."--New York Journal of Books
"Gripping…beautifully written but also a page-turner. What a
debut!"--Sarah Pearse, author of The Sanatorium
"So much speculative fiction amounts to nothing more than just
that: idle what-iffing, spitballed at the reader with little
conviction and even less imagination. But The End of Men, like only
a very few novels published since The Handmaid's Tale—think Naomi
Alderman's The Power, think Children of Men by P D James—builds an
alternate reality so persuasive, so confident, that it soon evolves
from intriguing fiction to you-are-there docudrama, as vivid as Max
Brooks' World War Z. Part parable, part thriller, and
altogether provocative, this is the stuff that classics are made
of." —AJ Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in
the Window
“Compelling and heartbreaking. A remarkable achievement.”—Abi Daré,
author of The Girl With the Louding Voice
"Gripping, scary, persuasive."--Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector
Rebus Novels
"A tour de force—a feminist reimagining of society but, really, a
gripping story about real women. I could not think about anything
else." —Gillian McAllister, author of Everything But the Truth
"‘I ripped through this. It’s pacey, devastating, prescient,
compelling and confronting, not only because it’s the first thing
I’ve read that even touches the sides of the very real pandemic
we’re living through, but also because a world without men? It was
uncomfortable and fascinating to read about. This is a
sure-fire hit, and rightly so." —Laura Jane Williams
"Brilliant, prescient and unputdownable." —Jenny Colgan
"Topical, timely, imaginative, and ultimately hopeful."--Katie
Khan, author of Hold Back the Stars
"An incredible achievement--both a breath-taking feat of
imagination and a wise, steady eye on the world as it is."--Jessica
Moor, author of The Keeper
“Moving, thought-provoking and terrifyingly prescient.”—Tami Cohen,
author of When She Was Bad
“A powerful, gripping book that has made me feel a little better
about the world we are living in right now.”—Bryony Gordon, author
of No Such Thing as Normal
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