How to Survive Everything

Ben and Haley are brother and sister and the children of a paranoid doomsday prepper, Ed. Upon hearing of the possibility of an upcoming pandemic, their father forces them to accompany him to a remote piece of land to ride out the future disaster along with several of his followers.{{Cite book |last=Morrison |first=Ewan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FfMeEAAAQBAJ |title=How to Survive Everything |publisher=Saraband |year=2021 |isbn=9781913393168}}

How to Survive Everything received generally positive reviews from critics.{{Cite web |title=How to Survive Everything |url=https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/how-to-survive-everything/ |access-date=2022-12-22 |website=BookMarks}} Allan Massie praised Morrison for avoiding issues common in other dystopian novels such as poor characterization and noted Haley's sense of humor.{{Cite web |last=Massie |first=Allan |date=2021-02-26 |title=Book review: How to survive everything, by Ewan Morrison |url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/books/book-review-how-to-survive-everything-by-ewan-morrison-3146083 |access-date=2022-12-22 |website=The Scotsman}} The Herald noted the book's careful handling of its themes.{{Cite web |last=Forbes |first=Malcom |date=2021-03-08 |title=How To Survive Everything: 'Ewan Morrison topples our expectations' |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19126777.survive-everything-ewan-morrison-topples-expectations/ |access-date=2022-12-22 |website=The Herald}} Stuart Kelly wrote positively in The Spectator about the novel's plot and praised Morrison for humanizing doomsday preppers.{{Cite web |last=Kelly |first=Stuart |date=2021-03-27 |title=Escape from reality: How to Survive Everything, by Ewan Morrison, reviewed |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/escape-from-reality-how-to-survive-everything-by-ewan-morrison-reviewed/ |access-date=2022-12-22 |website=The Spectator}} By contrast, Ben H. Winters panned the book in The New York Times, criticizing Morrison's narrative structure and describing the dialogue as "clumsy and forced."{{Cite web |last=Winters |first=Ben H. |date=2022-11-15 |title=A Survival Guide for the End of the World |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/books/review/how-to-survive-everything-ewan-morrison.html |access-date=2022-12-22 |website=The New York Times}}

• Longlisted for the 2021 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year{{Cite web |date=2021-06-22 |title=Longlist Announced for the McIlvanney Prize 2021 sponsored by The Glencairn Glass |url=https://trade.panmacmillan.com/longlist-announced-for-the-mcilvanney-prize-2021-sponsored-by-the-glencairn-glass |access-date=2022-12-22 |website=Pan Macmillan Trade}}

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Category:2021 speculative fiction novels

Category:English-language novels