In We Are Together Because, Luke and Connor, two brothers, are spending their first holiday together in France with their younger half-sisters, Thea and Violet. The siblings don’t know each other all that well, but this experience is going to make up for all that… just as soon as their father joins them from his business trip.

With no parental supervision to start, they spend hot lethargic days by the pool, battling adolescent angst and personal demons, until suddenly, their inner turmoil is overshadowed with an unexplainable worldwide chaos. No working phones. No parental guidance. No running water, nor food. The siblings can’t decide if they’d be better off finding someone in the wilds of a surreally silent France, or remain inside their father’s holiday home, alone…

Kerry Andrew, a London-based musician and acclaimed author of 2018 novel Swansong, concocts a novel of troubling scenes in which our land responds to eerie change and our youth responds to sex in its multiple pleasurable divergences. We Are Together Because is a frightening read with unforgettable characters – forced to explore their true colours in the end days. It unfolds in a manner unlike any other apocalyptic fiction I’ve ever read, and in the most compelling of ways.