This book almost flew under my radar, and I am so glad that it was brought to my attention. It’s hard for a post-apocalyptic book to make it on my crowded reading list in this somewhat saturated market, but the plot and pacing of The Fire Sermon drew me into its brutal and interesting story. […]
Author: Francesca Haig
Francesca Haig is an author and academic. Her poetry is widely published, and her novel The Fire Sermon (the first in a post-apocalyptic trilogy) will be published in February 2015 by HarperVoyager (UK) and March 2015 by Simon & Schuster (US and Canada), and is being translated into more than 20 languages. She gained her PhD from the University of Melbourne, and her principal research area is Holocaust literature. She grew up in Tasmania, and currently lives in London.