A blistering and incredible ride across the end of the world with one of sci-fi's most memorable narrators of recent times. Do yourself a favour and get this book because very soon an extremely attractive person at a party is going to ask you if you've read it, and you want to be able to say 'yes! it was amazing!' or the conversation will peter out right there and they'll wander off leaving you to spend the rest of your life wondering whether that was the person you were supposed to marry...