"One of the most provocative, intelligent and original novelists working in Britain today." —Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting Longlisted for the 2021 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2021 Bookmark Book of the Year Prize My name is Haley Cooper Crowe and I am in lockdown in a remote location I can’t tell you about.  Haley and Ben live with their mother. But their dad has good reason to believe there’s a new, much deadlier pandemic coming. He’s determined to get them to the safety of his lockdown hideaway. NOW. The only problem is, there is no way their mother will go along with this plan.  Kidnapped by their father and confined to a prepper compound, they have no contact with the outside world. Can they survive? Will they save their mother? This is one teenage girl’s survival guide for negotiating the collapse of everything she knows—including her family and sanity.