She must choose between keeping her career and her freedom or pursuing a secret that could turn the tables on Davenport’s government. She can’t help herself, even though authorities are clearly shadowing her all over London. Thorne leaves Hopper a clue before he dies.
Thorne has been trying to reach his former understudy with important information, but Hopper wants nothing to do with him after their relationship ended badly. Thorne was once a close confidant of Davenport, the U.K.’s authoritarian leader, but something caused a rift that exiled him to Oxford University. One day, two government officials fly to her rig on a helicopter and demand Hopper return to London to visit Edward Thorne, her former college professor, on his death bed. With thousands of refugees dying at sea every year in modern times trying to reach their destinations, it’s not a stretch to believe a leader would behave this way. Hopper’s mother was lost on a ship returning from France, and that haunts her every time she boards one of these ghastly vessels. sunk a massive number of vessels off its coast to create a barrier – an underwater wall. Her crew scavenges ships of corpses left adrift after the government of the U.K. It’s the world’s last great empire, but even the UK is struggling to feed its citizens and the few refugees who arrived.Ī scientist on an ocean rig, Ellen Hopper has close encounters with the millions of refugees who didn’t make it. The most habitable zones are in a state of perpetual dawn or dust, and that includes the United Kingdom. The areas in peak sunlight, covering Western Europe and Africa, have life-threatening heat and rapidly spreading deserts. The dark side of the globe, including North America, is freezing and experienced a massive loss of life. An entire generation has grown up never seeing a sunset. The novel is set 30 years after “the Slow”, the gradual slowing of the Earth’s rotation that ended with one side of the planet locked facing the sun, and the other side in permanent darkness. The Last Day also unravels a mystery, as the last major government in the world is hiding something from its citizens. He describes it not only scientifically, but how the harsh Darwinism of society would deal with it. It’s a fun conversation to have over a pint what would happen if the world stopped spinning? In his debut novel, Andrew Hunter Murray, who works on the BBC show QI and co-hosts the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, fully flushes out this premise. In his new dystopian novel, The Last Day, Andrew Hunter Murray explores a question we all wonder: What happens on the day the earth stands still?Īndrew Hunter Murray took an idea that sounds simple – the world stops turning – and spun it into a gripping novel about those with power and sunlight on their side keeping everyone else in the dark in The Last Day.
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