**WINNER 2021 CBCA Older Reader Category**

She said we didn't know what the world out there had become. We had been alone there so long on that tiny island, in that tiny church. But in the night, I couldn't bear it. My chest beat like wings.

Identical twin sisters Summer and Winter live alone on a remote island, sheltered from a destroyed world. They survive on rations stockpiled by their father and spend their days deep in their mother's collection of classic literature-until a mysterious stranger upends their carefully constructed reality.

At first, Edward is a welcome distraction. But who is he really, and why has he come? As love blooms and the world stops spinning, the secrets of the girls' past begin to unravel and escape is the only option.

A sumptuously written novel of love and grief; of sisterly affection and the ultimate sacrifice; of technological progress and climate catastrophe; of an enigmatic bear and a talking whale-The End of the World Is Bigger than Love is unlike anything you've read before.

2021 CBCA Shortlisted Book of the Year - Older Readers

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Winner, Ethel Turner Prize for Young Adult’s Literature, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, 2021
Shortlisted, Best Designed Young Adult Cover, Australian Book Design Awards, 2021
Commended, Writing for Young Adults, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, 2021
Shortlisted, Readings Young Adult Book Prize, 2021
Longlisted, Book of the Year for Older Children, Australian Book Industry Awards, 2021
Longlisted, Young Adult, Davitt Awards, Sisters in Crime, 2021
Commended, CBCA Notable Books: Older Readers, 2021