Cirrus@Austlit

'Award-winning Australian playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer’s debut novel, The End and Everything Before It, is inflected with whimsy and curiosity, characteristics the author has honed through his pedigree in writing children’s theatre. Kruckemeyer’s fable-like tale blooms on an unnamed island. We follow the island’s repeating seasons, learn its ecosystem and trace the interconnections between generations of the island’s citizens which, like a murmuration of birds, is “all those brains kindred – an infinite number, and at the same time a singularity”.' (Introduction)