Ragnarok: The End of the Gods

Greedy, cruel and foolish, the Gods deserve to die …From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession and The Children’s Book comes a mesmerising tale of the end of the gods and the destruction of life on this planet. Into her version of Ragnarok, surely one of the most thrilling and apocalyptic of myths, A.S. Byatt weaves the story of a young girl evacuated to the British countryside during the Second World War. Struggling to make sense of her life, she is given a book of Norse myths, and her inner and outer worlds are transformed.

Reviews of Ragnarok: The End of the Gods

Byatt's prose is majestic, the lush descriptive passages – jeweled one minute, gory the next – a pleasure to get lost in – Sunday Telegraph