'It is never what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different - unimagined, unprepared for, unknown .' 'What a remarkable and beautifully wrought novel. In its depiction of the world at once utterly like and unlike our own, The Age of Miracles is so convincingly unsettling that it just might make you stockpile emergency supplies of batteries and boiled water. It also - thank goodness - provides great solace with its wisdom, its compassion, and the elegance of its storytelling' Curtis Sittenfeld, author of American Wife 'The Age of Miracles spins its glowing magic through incredible lucid and honest prose, giving equal care and dignity to small spheres and the large. It is at once a love letter to the world as we know it, and an elegy' Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Author photo Karen: KAREN THOMPSON WALKER is a graduate of UCLA and the Columbia MFA program. A former book editor, she wrote The Age of Miracles in the mornings before work. Born and raised in San Diego, California, she now lives in Brooklyn with her husband.

The Age of Miracles is her first book.