She is thrown out of her house, loses her livelihood and all her friends and is subject to spot checks of her house to make sure she is no longer reading or writing fiction. Both thought-provoking and heartfelt, END OF STORY is a unique dystopian mystery about human connection amidst automation, renewal amidst defeat, and the power of writing. Any description you get couldn't possibly encompass the strange beauty of this story it is entirely its own thing.

Living in the United States, and with our current political hysteria, the book predicts what our future could be and that is horrifying. My short stories have won the Glass Woman Prize, the Eric Hoffer Award for Prose, and the Aesthetica Creative Works competition, as well as shortlisting twice for the Bridport Prize and being published in a variety of UK magazines. I hope to introduce new features during 2022 and join the Bookstagram community on Instagram properly, so come and follow me there too!Her words kept resonating with me; “If you tell a story well enough, it’s true,” and it’s through these words I began to understand the mystery of her confinement. It’s a compelling book, set in 2035, revealing a cruel, totalitarian era where disaster is sure to come at full force.

Swanson references them being like something from Men In Black but for me, I conjured up a pairing more sinister – the Agent Smiths from The Matrix. Beech's eight books have won the Best magazine Book of the Year 2019, shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year, longlisted for the Polari Prize, and been a Clare Mackintosh Book Club Pick. Thank you to Louise Swanson, Hodder and Stoughton and NetGalley for an advanced copy of the audiobook.

The quality of the writing makes the storyline so convincing and it touches me, it moves me and fills me with empathy.

I have loved every single Louise Beech story I've read so far, and her new pen name Louise Swanson doesn't change that.A propulsive and incredibly creepy dystopian premise - I was hooked from the outset, and every twist was perfectly executed. I do have to admit to getting irritated when every diary entry ended mid sentence and sometimes mid word but I understand why that was necessary for the plot. What struck me last night as I digested all this exciting news, was how close the release dates of these two books are. This book had the author’s gorgeous prose and unfaltering style stamped all over it, but with a dystopian twist.

Great concept which jumped out at me as soon as I read the blurb (yes I actually read the blurb for once). So when a blue trainer, a tea seller (Fine-Fayre) and a notebook are her only companions, it’s easy to resonate with her grief. Her memoir, Daffodils, was released in audiobook in 2022, and the paperback version, Eighteen Seconds, will be out April 2023.She had created a dystopian future where two major policies were being adopted as standard practice. Louise Swanson takes every expectation and defies it - to tell a breath-taking tale of humanity and redemption. On the surface, she’s abiding by the rules, not contacting other former authors, going to her cleaning job every day and not writing.