This article is about Geraldine McCaughrean's young adult novel. For Christopher Brookmyre's crime novel, see Not the End of the World (crime novel); for Kate Atkinson's book of short stories, see Not the End of the World (short story collection)
Not the End of the World is a young adult novel by Geraldine McCaughrean. It retells the Biblical story of Noah's Ark. The main character is Noah's thirteen-year-old daughter, Timna. The story is also relayed from the points of view of the animals.[1] The novel was first published in 2004 and was the winner of the 2004 Whitbread Children's Book Award.[2]