'Alam explores complex ideas about privilege and fate with miraculous wit and grace'
JENNY OFFILL

'I have not been this profoundly unnerved by a science fiction novel since Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go'
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO

**SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX ADAPTION STARRING DENZEL WASHINGTON AND JULIA ROBERTS**

Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a holiday: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple – it's their house, and they've arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area – with the TV and internet now down, and no phone service – it's hard to know what to believe.

Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple – and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the holiday home, isolated from civilisation, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one another?

An electrifying and unnerving novel for our times, Leave the World Behind elegantly captures our age of anxiety and shows how the most terrifying situations are never far from reality