WonderLit Press
October 2025
On Sale: October 14, 2025
148 pages ISBN: 1069368601 EAN: 9781069368607 Kindle: B0FMN1PB79 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
It's 2012 and the Mayan calendar has predicted the end of the world. That's all she wrote, as they say. But for 60-year-old Prim, a couple questions remain, if the end times wouldn't mind waiting a tick: Is her quiet, proper, and self-isolating older middle-aged life all there is and ever will be? Could just a few days be enough time to become whoever she is who isn’t Prim?
With humour, compassion, and a dash of daring, Michelle Tocher turns the narrative of the midlife crisis on its head in this rollicking journey following one woman's metamorphosis from her isolated, "prim and proper" self into someone who is audaciously part of a greater whole.
Illustrated by Shelagh Armstrong-Hodgson, The End of Prim is a moving and playful reminder that every day is a new opportunity to find our wings. Unlike Prim, we don’t need to be confronted by the spectre of mortality to take those first bold steps into a bright unknown.
Though a little apocalypse doesn’t hurt to get the ball rolling!
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