A gorgeous speculative novel in the tradition of  Cloud Atlas  about three women trying to build meaningful lives despite a decaying future. Against a backdrop of growing violence and environmental collapse, three women living centuries apart each search for meaning and connection after becoming obsessed with a mysterious red book. In post–World War I London, Bea encounters an uncanny figure she believes is an angel as the life she is building in the Jewish East End is threatened by fascists. In contemporary East London’s underground queer scene, Kay parties with her friends while imagining herself visited by time travelers. And years in the future, Ess—part of a collective preparing for the end of human life on earth—prepares to make a journey into the past to possibly help save the present. Roisin Dunnett’s brilliant debut  A Line You Have Traced  asks what we owe to those who will come after us, and what it might cost us. Praise for A Line You Have Traced "Its prose urgent, elegant, and alarming, A Line You Have Traced is a startling speculative novel that muses through the implications of action and inaction in the face of injustice." — Foreword Reviews , starred review "Dunnett's time-hopping novel, reminiscent of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas , is a good example of character-driven literary sci-fi." — Library Journal "Dunnett blends cli-fi with a little bit of sf to create a fascinating novel, adding feminist sensibilities along the way. Each character’s point of view is distinct and describes the world as they see it in a relatable way. Even the future is accessible, though daunting in the changes it depicts. Recommended." — Booklist "Lyrical."— Kirkus Reviews "Dazzles with the scope of its wild, weird imagination and the freshness of its storytelling. Roisin Dunnett is a haunting and magnificent new voice in speculative fiction." — Sam J. Miller, author of Blackfish City " A Line You Have Traced is a metamorphosis. A love letter. A manifesto on time and becoming. Behold as a queer cast of characters discover the past and the future, fall in love, bravely face the end of the world, undergo inconceivable change, and emerge unapologetically as the most natural thing they can be: themselves." — Molly McGhee, author of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind “I don’t know which I admire more: the casual beauty of the sentences, the cunning of the design, or the tact and compassion with which A Line You Have Traced weaves together its three layers of time into its instructions for the end of our world.” — Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill   “This is a gloriously innovative, endlessly surprising gut punch of a novel. Dunnett is a dazzlingly original, luminous new voice in fiction. . . . If the novel has any future at all, then this is it.” — Rebecca Tamás, author of Witch Roisin Dunnett holds a degree in English literature from Clare College Cambridge and an MA in creative and life writing from Goldsmiths, where she was longlisted for the Pat Kavanagh Prize in 2022. Her stories have been published in Prototype, Hotel, Ambit, Vittles, and elsewhere, and her fiction pamphlet Animal, Vegetable was published in 2021 by Broken Sleep Books. She lives in London.