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‘WRITTEN PRE-COVID – GRIPPING, SCARY AND PERSUASIVE’ IAN RANKIN

‘THE STUFF THAT CLASSICS ARE MADE OF’ A.J. FINN

‘GRIPPING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN. WHAT A DEBUT!’ SARAH PEARSE, author of The Sanatorium

‘BRILLIANT, PRESCIENT, UNPUTDOWNABLE’ JENNY COLGAN

‘AN ENGROSSING DEBUT’ STYLIST

‘HUGE IN SCOPE…AS TENSE AS THE TAUTEST THRILLER’ RED

‘THE MOST BUZZED-ABOUT FICTION FOR 2021’ SUNDAY TIMES STYLE

‘AN UNFLINCHINGLY PACY MUST-READ’GRAZIA

‘AN UNFORGETTABLE DEBUT’ PRIMA
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A RACE AGAINST TIME
The year is 2025. Mankind is under threat.

A FIGHT FOR THEIR LIVES
Men are dying, but women remain safe. As the sickness spreads to every corner of the globe, people fight to protect the men they love against all odds.

A DISASTER LIKE NO OTHER
Can they find a cure before it’s too late? Will this be the story of the end of the world – or its salvation?

Compelling and devastating, The End of Men is the pulse-pounding thriller everyone is talking about.
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‘A POWERFUL, GRIPPING BOOK THAT HAS MADE ME FEEL A LITTLE BIT BETTER ABOUT THE WORLD WE ARE LIVING IN RIGHT NOW’ BRYONY GORDON

‘FRIGHTENINGLY PRESCIENT… A COMPELLING, MOVING AND INTELLIGENT PAGE-TURNER’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

‘A TOUR DE FORCE – A FEMINIST REIMAGINING OF SOCIETY’ GILLIAN MCALLISTER

‘COMPELLING AND HEART-BREAKING. A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT’ ABI DARÉ

‘PACY, EMOTIVE, THOUGHT-PROVOKING AND ULTIMATELY A REMINDER OF THE STRENGTH OF LOVE AND HUMAN CONNECTION’ C.D. MAJOR

'A REMARKABLY PRESCIENT, WHIP-SMART, AND STRANGELY HOPEFUL NOVEL' CHARLOTTE PHILBY

‘DEVASTATING, PRESCIENT, COMPELLING AND CONFRONTING’ LAURA JANE WILLIAMS

‘GRIPPING, MOVING AND SCARILY PRESCIENT. COULDN’T PUT IT DOWN’ CHARLOTTE NORTHEDGE, AUTHOR OF THE HOUSE GUEST

‘MOVING, THOUGHT-PROVOKING AND TERRIFYINGLY PRESCIENT’ TAMMY COHEN

‘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

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‘The stuff that classics are made of’ A.J. FINN

‘A fiercely intelligent page-turner, at once thoughtful and highly emotive’ PAULA HAWKINS

‘Written pre-Covid – gripping, scary and persuasive’ IAN RANKIN

‘Gripping…a beautifully written page-turner’ SARAH PEARSE, AUTHOR OF THE SANATORIUM

‘A powerful book that has made me feel a little bit better about the world we are living in right now’ BRYONY GORDON

‘I ripped through this. It’s pacey, devastating, prescient, compelling and confronting…a sure-fire hit, and rightly so’ LAURA JANE WILLIAMS

‘It is scary how prescient and relevant this is…compelling and heart-breaking. A remarkable achievement’ ABI DARÉ

‘Brilliant, prescient and unputdownable’ JENNY COLGAN

‘A tour de force – a feminist reimagining of society’ GILLIAN MCALLISTER

‘One of the best books I’ve ever read’ ANSTEY HARRIS

‘Moving, thought-provoking and terrifyingly prescient. I talked of nothing else for days!’ TAMMY COHEN

‘Pacy, emotive, thought-provoking and ultimately a reminder of the strength of love and human connection’ C.D. MAJOR

'A remarkably prescient, whip-smart, and strangely hopeful novel' CHARLOTTE PHILBY

‘Gripping, moving and scarily prescient. Couldn’t put it down’ CHARLOTTE NORTHEDGE

‘Topical, timely, imaginative and ultimately hopeful’ KATIE KHAN

'An incredible achievement' JESSICA MOOR

‘Expect big things from The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird. Sold in a six-figure deal, there is also a major film in the pipeline’ SUNDAY EXPRESS

‘Chillingly prescient’ SUNDAY TIMES SCOTLAND

‘THE MOST BUZZED-ABOUT FICTION FOR 2021’ SUNDAY TIMES STYLE

‘HUGE IN SCOPE…AS TENSE AS THE TAUTEST THRILLER’RED

‘AN UNFLINCHINGLY PACY MUST-READ’GRAZIA

‘AN UNFORGETTABLE DEBUT’PRIMA

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Christina was born in 1993 and grew up between London and Glasgow. She studied Law at the University of Cambridge and graduated with a First in 2015. Christina works as a Corporate Litigation lawyer in London. The End of Men is her first novel.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Borough Press (29 April 2021)
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I wrote The End of Men in 2018 and 2019 before Corona virus and could never have expected the parallels between the real world and my fiction that would ensue. I’ve been told by some early readers though, that The End of Men has made them feel better about the world we live in today. The book has a lot of hope and is, ultimately, about human resilience and our ability to cope with the extraordinary.

I so hope you enjoy it!

My debut novel, The End of Men, will be released on 29 April 2021 and is to be published in 15 languages. The End of Men explores the question: what would the world look like without men? It follows characters as they try and keep their families safe, recover and rebuild the world after a deadly virus to which women are immune kills 90% of the male population. You follow characters like Dr Amanda Maclean, a Glaswegian A and E consultant, who treats Patient Zero and is desperate to keep her two sons safe; Elizabeth Cooper, a young American scientist who helps to create a vaccine in London; and Catherine Lawrence, an anthropologist who wants to record and commemorate what’s happening in the world.

I live in London where I work full-time as a corporate litigation lawyer. I write 1,000 words a day in the evenings and on weekends, fuelled by 7up Free, green tea and snacks.

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Not the story I expected

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 31 December 2022

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When I read the synopsis of this book, that 90% of men globally die of a mysterious illness, I have to admit I was expecting some kind of rabid feminist trope - all the men are dead! The world is fixed! Huzzah! But that is absolutely not what this book is. This is the examination of what grief and loss on such a massive scale would look and feel like. And sure, safety equipment is updated to actually be designed for female anatomy instead of just smaller version of the stuff designed for men and medically there’s a greater focus on how illnesses present in women instead of using male diagnostic criteria but that is a tiny blip compared to the massive societal shift and overwhelming grief portrayed here. If anything, this book calls the kill-all-men feminists to account. It’s is beautiful, moving and wonderfully human.

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Shelley Boothman

Gripping for the most part.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 7 December 2022

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I did really enjoy reading this. But at around 70% I did get a little bored and only continued reading to find out about 1 particular character. But that didn't happen till the penultimate chapter 😅.
It is mostly based on middle class families, highly educated and a little bit posh for a commoner like me.
I would have loved to see 'the plague' from more of a working class perspective but only because I would find it more 'relatable'.
Overall it was good. And did have me crying on a handful of pages!

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Almost great

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 11 August 2021

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For me, this was almost a great book. I zipped through it! It was very well written and the scope of the imagined consequences of such a deadly pandemic was impressive. There was a lot of humour in it, too, which I loved and which made the horrible stuff even more horrible in contrast. I would have liked to have spent more time with each character - a lot of reviewers seem to have felt the same. I didn’t care enough about any of them, apart from Toby on the ship, for some reason. I really wanted him to be OK, maybe because his situation was so dire. I also agree with the criticism that most of the characters were too same-y. It was almost like the same person had been put into many different situations.

<!!!Spoilers ahead!!!>

My main gripe, though, is with the science.

For such a high-profile book, I would have thought that someone at some stage would have checked the basic science of the premise, which, as other reviewers have pointed out, is completely wrong. On reflection, though, I don’t really blame the author or the publisher for this - one lesson of the Covid pandemic, I think, is that the majority of the population have a woefully inadequate education in science, which has spawned all the anti-vaxxer nonsense and probably cost many lives.

This is the explanation given for why most men are susceptible to the Plague and all woman are not:

‘The Plague virus requires the absence of a specific gene sequence. The body’s resistance to the Plague - through its ability to fight the high white blood cell count it generates with speed - is present in the X chromosome. In around 9 per cent of men their X chromosome has the necessary genetic protection. Thanks to their XX chromosomes, all women are safe.’

There are so many problems with this, but I’ll focus on the glaring, basic misunderstanding of genetics. The X chromosomes of men are not different from those of women - they all come from the same gene pool, as a man inherits the X chromosome from his mother. I think the author has read about rare X-linked conditions like haemophilia, which mainly affect men, and completely misunderstood how they come about. Basically, men are vulnerable if they carry a mistake, or mutation, in a gene on the X chromosome because they only have one X chromosome. Women have two, so a mutation on one is usually compensated for by the other chromosome IF THE MUTATION IS RARE, unless there is inbreeding. (Even when the mistake is rare, some women do, by chance, have two Xs with the same mistake, so it is not true that women are never affected by X-linked conditions.)

Now, the problem is that the Plague susceptibility mutation in this story is SO COMMON that 90% of X chromosomes have it (this has to be the case if 90% of people with a single X chromosome, i.e. men, have the mutation). If 90% of X chromosomes have the mutation, then MOST women will also be affected as the chance of both their Xs being faulty is 90% x 90% = 81%. So, 81% of women would also die! This is the main flaw in the premise, but there are many, many more throughout the book.

Still, it is a work of fiction and didn’t detract too much from my enjoyment of a really good story.

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ValRee

Great premise, poor execution.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 6 June 2022

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(Spoilers ahead.) I’ll start with what I liked, mainly the premise. It’s a great idea - a virus that kills virtually all men. It’s an original, thought provoking “what if” that has such potential. I also like the format of the book which is similar to World War Z. The story is told through multiple characters which (in theory) allows the story if events to be told. It’s also entertaining and a very easy read.

Now for what I didn’t like…

The author has clearly either done no research whatsoever, or has done some but hasn’t understood it. The book is littered with medical errors, some of which are laughable, others are infuriating. I appreciate she write this book before the COVID-19 pandemic so I’m trying to give her the benefit of the doubt. But for goodness sake - any author writing a novel about a pandemic really needs to grasp some basic, fundamental concepts. The author describes vaccine development but frequently and regularly muddles up vaccine with treatment. Later a vaccine isn’t released as it’s “only” 96% effective. A vaccine that’s 96% effective is a monumental success, especially against a disease that kills 97% of men. It would have been rolled out world-wide! But no, it’s shelved and the character keeps trying and the plot sufferes because of the authors lack of knowledge. Another example, at the beginning a medic is worried about a new / emerging novel infection - Ebola, SARS or MRSA. It’s laughable really!

One thing I loved about World War Z and which this novel epically fails at is the international dimension. The End of Men is almost exclusively set in England, Scotland, Canada or north Europe. The rest of the world is pretty much entirely ignored apart from a couple of chapters that seem tacked on. (I assume the publisher asked the author to add it an attempt to make it less parochial.). The developing world isn’t even mentioned, the focus is entirely on rich, western countries. It’s a crying shame and makes the novel far less interesting.

Another annoyance is that all the global public health agencies are portrayed as utterly useless, every development is made by a plucky individual (almost always white, middle-class, western) working alone. Individuals develop vaccines, re-order society etc. not a team or an organisation.

The characters are bland and interchangeable (almost all are middle class, white, straight English woman who have lost men they love). They were all so samey I couldn’t keep track.

But worst of all is the depiction of how the author portrays medics / public health staff reacting to the pandemic. An emergency department doctor doesn’t go to work for weeks (maybe months) during the worst of the pandemic. People are dying and suffering, she could help but she stays away. (Contrast with nurses / doctors during the early stages of COVID staying in hotels in order to treat patients and keep their families safe). A doctor develops a vaccine (after discarding the one that was “only” 96% effective) and won’t realise it to the world. Instead she (and Canada) will only sell it to a select few for significant profit. The author doesn’t bother to explore the ethics of this or the catastrophic impact this decision will have, especially on the developing world. I appreciate this was written before COVID but even basic research would have given the author a different picture. Throughout history most people do the right thing. People care for their patients / loved ones, even knowing they may get infected or die themselves. Nurses are doctors quite literally put their lives at risk during past pandemics looking after the sick. Vaccine develop is a global success of co-operation, not an individual making money. I’m not naive, there’s plenty to criticise in the global COVID response. But humans are better than this author thinks. Really it’s unfortunate that she publishes this after real-life healthcare staff prove to be heroes, not the villains the authors wants them to be.

So, it’s entertaining in places but medically illiterate, badly researched, insulting to healthcare staff and very white, western and bland. It was such an interesting premise, it’s such a shame it was done so badly. Ignore the hype, this really isn’t very good.

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