How to Survive Everything

A New York Times Editors Pick. Shortlisted for the Bookmark Festival Book of the Year and the McIlvanney PrizeI wasnt sure there could be a great pandemic novel. Here it is. Ian RankinMy name is Haley Cooper Crowe and I am in lockdown in a remote location I cant tell you about.Its five years after the pandemic, and for most people life has returned to normalbut not for Haley Cooper Crowe and her brother Ben. Children of divorce, they live with their mother, but their dad believes theres a new, much deadlier virus spreading out of control, and that he can only save his kids by kidnapping them and hiding them in his remote prepper hideaway.Once confined to their off-grid safe house, Haley and Ben are completely cut off from civilisation. Will they make it out alive? How can they save their mother? How can they discover whats happening on the outside?Propulsive, electrifying, tense, and often visceral and funny,How to Survive Everythingis one teenage girls guide to navigating the imminent collapse of her world, family and sanity.