After spending a decade as a broadcast journalist for the BBC, Jo Furniss gave up the glamour of night shifts to become a freelance writer and serial expatriate. Originally from the United Kingdom, she has lived in Switzerland and Cameroon and currently resides with her family in Singapore. As a journalist, Jo has worked for numerous online outlets and magazines, including Monocle, the Economist, Business Traveller, Expat Living (Singapore), and Swiss News. Jo has also edited books for a Nobel Laureate and the Palace of the Sultan of Brunei. In 2015, she founded SWAG-an online literary magazine for writers in Singapore. All the Little Children is Jo's debut novel; she is at work on a second domestic thriller to be released in 2018. To learn more about the author and her work, you can connect with her on Facebook (JoFurnissAuthor) and Twitter (@Jo_Furniss) and through her website, www.jofurniss.com.
“Jo Furniss’s debut All the Little Children is unique, gorgeously
written, and absolutely terrifying. With all the mystique of a
dystopian novel, Furniss deftly explores the idea of ‘sacrificing
one for the good of many,’ even when that one is your own child.
Utterly compelling!” —Kate Moretti, New York Times bestselling
author of The Vanishing Year
“Jo Furniss weaves a terrifyingly realistic story of survival and
resilience in her debut novel, All the Little Children. With a
story that’s heart-pounding in pace and heart-wrenching in content,
this up-and-coming author brings to life the universal plight of
parenthood—how do I protect my children? Furniss answers this
question and more with a chilling and beautifully woven tale that
will keep you up turning the pages and wondering, ‘What if this
happened to me?’” —Emily Bleeker, bestselling author of Wreckage
and When I’m Gone
“What a truly fantastic book. One of my favorites of the year! It’s
a feminist version of The Road. Jo Furniss has created a powerful
female heroine: a successful career woman, wife, and mother who
will do whatever it takes to protect her children. I devoured this
novel in one day and [found] myself still thinking about it and
Marlene long after I was finished. Jo Furniss’s characters are
gripping, and the [plot] is fast-paced and relentless, each chapter
leaving you breathless. I’m still reeling from the powerful story
and the heart-stopping conclusion of this incredible debut novel.”
—Hollie Overton, author of the international bestseller Baby
Doll
“When the world changes overnight, all that is left is
instinct—survival and maternal. This tense, emotional, and wholly
absorbing book makes you wonder: What would I do?” —JJ Marsh,
author of The Beatrice Stubbs Series
“Jo Furniss has written a hauntingly gripping tale layered in
lyrical prose. A mother’s quest to save her children after a
terrorist attack tests the limits of her endurance and leaves her
with an agonizing choice. All the Little Children is a compelling
page-turner from start to finish!” —Kylie Brant, author of Pretty
Girls Dancing
“All the Little Children is a moving, realistic, and suspenseful
portrayal of the realities of motherhood. Marlene’s constant
struggles with the balancing act of being a working mum take on an
urgent meaning in this surreal, postapocalyptic context. This is
literally a novel about surviving motherhood.” —Balli Kaur Jaswal,
author of Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
“A thoroughly original mash-up of mom lit and apocalyptic fiction,
All the Little Children is a thrilling ride. Jo Furniss expertly
blends heart-racing suspense with moments of genuine emotion—and
even dark humor. At last, mothers have an action hero to call their
own.” —Elizabeth Blackwell, bestselling author of In the Shadow of
Lakecrest
“Marlene Greene is a very modern mother and all the more realistic
for it. Jo Furniss has the ability to tap into emotions without
sentimentality, leaving you thinking long after the story
finishes.” —Alice Clark-Platts, bestselling author of Bitter Fruits
and The Taken
“All the Little Children is one of those books that grips you from
the start and never lets go. I was thinking about it long after I’d
finished reading. It’s punchy, relevant, and horribly plausible,
with a brilliant, flawed, brave narrator. The skillful interweaving
of the frustrations of motherhood and the apocalypse makes this
different from anything I’ve ever read before. And when I finished
it I was crying on a train, and I didn’t care who saw me.” —Emily
Barr, award–winning author of The One Memory of Flora Banks,
Backpack and The Sleeper
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