Elsie - Dion Wood

The world ended quietly.
Empty streets. Shuttered houses. Silence stretching along the coast.
Elsie is surviving in what remains of her hometown of Lowestoft. Trained to endure and conditioned to stay alive, she moves through abandoned streets by routine alone; breathing, counting, remembering.
When she returns to her childhood home, memories she has spent years trying to bury begin to surface. Family. Loss. Grief. The person she used to be before the world fell apart.
Told through shifting timelines of then and now, Elsie is a quiet, character-driven post-apocalyptic novel about loneliness, survival and learning how to keep going when everything feels broken.
Perfect for readers who enjoy atmospheric storytelling, emotionally driven survival fiction and deeply human characters.