Moths

Set in a future where the old world has collapsed, this debut dystopian thriller follows Mary, who has to decide how far she will go to protect her teenage son. Elsewhere, Olivia is running for her life from a surgeon who stalks her through the corridors of a hospital emergency department. Across the globe, men are either dying in their sleep or being driven into violent rage. The cause is a swarm of moths, whose hatched caterpillars release toxic threads that drift on the air. Humanity is not wiped out, but it is battered and barely hanging on.

Generations on, most people have no memory of life before the catastrophe. Mary is one of the few who does, and when a chance to change things comes her way, she must weigh painful choices. Will she hold on to the last link she has to the past, or gamble everything for the sake of equality? The book carries a feminist edge that questions how society might be reshaped after such a loss.