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The End of the World Running Club: The ultimate race against time post-apocalyptic thriller

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Edgar meets many people in his run across the country, from Harvey to Lord Bartonmouth. What did they all contribute to Edgar’s transformation, and who do you think was the most important?

The End of the World Running Club by Adrian Walker The End of the World Running Club by Adrian Walker

I was pleasantly surprised when I first started reading this, this being my first Adrian Walker book I have to say it's super fast paced, bursting with high sea chases and you really are whole heartedly routing for Beth the main character it's a fantastic read that really portrays what lengths a mother will go to to reach her children.So anyway, the world ends, and Edgar is forced to step up and take care of his family. So does he? Will he protect his wife, their little girl and infant son? Well, not quite. He tries, he really tries. When he's not avoiding them. Maybe not them, but the responsibility they bring along with them. All he wants to do is play boy scout while the army takes care of everything. Following on from The End of the World Running Club (which I haven't read) in which Ed Hill literally runs across the country to get to his wife Beth and their children, this book continues with the story but this time told from Beth's point of view. Poor Edgar. Really. He drinks a fair bit and is not that fit, he's not particularly happy with his lot in life, finding family life somewhat mundane. Cue fiery asteroids from outer space decimating the UK and elsewhere, enforcing upon him some kind of actual responsibility.

The End of the World Running Club - Penguin Books UK

I wonder - if we'd gone south, if we'd found a way onto the island, would things have been different?' was how one chapter ended, before we even knew what happened in the next chapter. It kind of spoils the flow of the book. There were many examples of this and I prefer to be surprised in a book rather than be told to be get ready to be surprised. I can still feel the sun of an English summer, smell the warm grass that brushed against my boyhood face, hear my mother’s voice calling beneath the gentle hum of a single-engine airplane. Das war meine Bestimmung in dieser Welt. Ich war ein Überlebenskünstler. Ein Mensch. Ein Mann." (S. 58) On the sofa, I plugged the milk bottle into Arthur’s mouth with one hand and found the remote with the other. I stopped. I found a first aid kit and threw it in the box along with some bandages. I could hear Beth thumping about above me, pulling things out of drawers and cupboards. Two large boxes of diapers thumped at the bottom of the stairs.

The first four chapters would make an amazing short story about an asteroid(s) impact on Earth. I rate those four chapters 5 out of 5. And then the rest of the book comes... and ruins the magic. The title, The End of the World Running Club, is clever given where the book heads. I do appreciate the sarcasm and irony that is used throughout the world ending story. It’s just a phase,” the midwife had said on that dark winter’s day all those months before. “He’ll grow out of it when he’s good

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