IT WAS AN ARTICLE, SAYS NAOMI ALDERMAN, that set her writing. Specifically an essay published in The New Yorker in 2017, in which reporter Evan Osnos detailed how some of America’s wealthiest people are preppers, putting a percentage of their vast resources into creating well-appointed bunkers and boltholes where they can, if the worst happens, ride out The End Of The World As We Know It.
“I think a bunker is a stupid fantasy,” she says. “It’s a psychological, emotional fantasy that ‘I can make sure I’m always fine