Tramp Press

Sophie and her five children, still raw from tragedy, relocate fromCanada to her partner Derek's childhood home. There they attemptto forge a new life together - but their new family is shadowed bygrief, myth, and a lingering sense of the uncanny. Through shifting perspectives, from Jules, the delicate middlechild, to fierce Ema, to volatile Angelo, debut author Juliano Zaffinopaints an unforgettable portrait of love, loyalty, and the stories we tellourselves to survive. Blending psychological suspense with intimate family drama,and with echoes of Virginia Woolf and Shirley Jackson, The Steps isboth deeply moving and eerily unsettling, a meditation on trauma,family bonds, and the thin line between tenderness and violence.

Because the thing about the end of the world is that it happens all the time. Someone leaves and it''s the end of the world. Someone comes back and it''s the end of the world. Somebody puts their cock in you and it''s the end of the world. Somebody stops putting their cock in you and it''s the end of the world. Here is a novel about mothering, wolves, bicycles, midwifery, post-apocalyptic feminism, gold, hunger and hope. It''s about an underachieving millennial, a retired midwife and a charismatic Dubliner who set out from London after the end of the world to cycle to a sanctuary in the southern Alps. It''s about the porousness of the female bodily experience, the challenges of being an empiricist with a sample size of one, what''s worth knowing, what''s worth living, and the necessity of irrationality. It''s about the fact that the world ends all the time, and it''s about what to try to do next.