Nominated for the 2019 Booker Prize<br>Narrated by BAFTA-winning actor Will Poulter<br><br>Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he's lucky if nothing goes wrong he only has two years of this 729 more nights.The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and never has to spend another day of his life anywhere near it. He longs for this to be over; longs to be somewhere else. He will soon find out what Defenders do and who the Others are. Along with the rest of his squad he will endure cold and fear day after day night after night. But somewhere in the dark cave of his mind he thinks: wouldn't it be interesting if something did happen if they came if you had to fight for your life?<br><br>John Lanchester's thrilling hypnotic new novel is about why the young are right to hate the old. It's about a broken world you will recognise as your own-and about what might be found when all is lost.