In the Beginning

‘In his nifty satire, Simon Edge has created a fictional popular lunacy – saying that Earth is millions of years old is offensive – to expose exactly how such human madnesses occur. The book effectively boils it down to a combination of social conformist bubbles and powerful, bad-but-attractive, ideas’ -- The Spectator
‘Simon Edge is the wickedest of satirists, and never funnier than when skewering transgender activism and credulity’ -- Amanda Craig

‘A pacy satire which lampoons the lunacy and captures the personal devastation caused by the movement to erase biological sex. Compelling and empathic... Edge perfectly exposes the ludicrous views and hollow values held by the globe’s most educated people’

-- The Critic
‘Completely absurd yet painfully accurate, In the Beginning brilliantly parodies a fiasco that already seems beyond parody’ -- Victoria Smith, author of Hags

‘I hugely recommend Simon Edge’s magnificent pair of novels, The End of the World is Flat and In the Beginning. Coruscating satires on currently trendy anti-science lunacy, and the spiteful viciousness of its juvenile zealots and their cowardly adult enablers’

-- Richard Dawkins

‘Funny, clever, and the retelling of the Maya Forstater case in the most astute and hilarious manner. I loved every line’

-- Julie Bindel

‘Funny, witty, delightfully satirical’

-- Madeleine D’Arcy, winner of the Hennessy Literary Award

‘Brilliant! Totally gripping, perfectly capturing both the absurdity and horror of this madness. I laughed out loud lots and I got quite emotional – with both anger and joy’

-- Gareth Roberts, author of Gay Shame

‘Simon Edge is Britain’s leading exponent of Horatian satire. Yes, he likes his characters, but also sees through them – and us, his readers – with pellucid insight’

-- Helen Dale

‘The world is not beyond satire. I know this thanks to Simon Edge’

-- Jonathan Kay, Quillette

‘Another richly enjoyable, rapier-sharp lampoon of cancel culture, witch hunts and the madness of crowds from the author of The End of the World is Flat’

-- Saga Magazine

‘Stories that communicate the current insanity to the future will be essential. Edge has novelised the historical moment of “Terf Island” brilliantly’

-- The Distance