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When the Floods Came
Clare Morrall
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Description for When the Floods Came
Paperback. A taut, gripping novel set in the future, when the lives of a family existing on the margins of a dramatically changed society are upset by a mysterious stranger. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 32. Weight in Grams: 258.
In a world prone to violent flooding, Britain, ravaged 20 years earlier by a deadly virus, has been largely cut off from the rest of the world. Survivors are few and far between, most of them infertile. Children, the only hope for the future, are a rare commodity. For 22-year-old Roza Polanski, life with her family in their isolated tower block is relatively comfortable. She's safe, happy enough. But when a stranger called Aashay Kent arrives, everything changes. At first he's a welcome addition, his magnetism drawing the Polanskis out of their shells, promising an alternative ... Read more
In a world prone to violent flooding, Britain, ravaged 20 years earlier by a deadly virus, has been largely cut off from the rest of the world. Survivors are few and far between, most of them infertile. Children, the only hope for the future, are a rare commodity. For 22-year-old Roza Polanski, life with her family in their isolated tower block is relatively comfortable. She's safe, happy enough. But when a stranger called Aashay Kent arrives, everything changes. At first he's a welcome addition, his magnetism drawing the Polanskis out of their shells, promising an alternative ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444736519
SKU
V9781444736519
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99-50
About Clare Morrall
Clare Morrall's first novel, Astonishing Splashes of Colour, was published in 2003 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize that year. She has since published the novels Natural Flights of the Human Mind, The Language of Others, The Man Who Disappeared, which was a TV Book Club Summer Read in 2010, The Roundabout Man and After the Bombing. ... Read more
Reviews for When the Floods Came
The measured pace of the story is mesmeric; the wilfulness of adolescence excruciatingly well drawn
Gwyneth Jones
Guardian
Morrall envisions an all too believable dystopian future in a novel that charms and appals in equal measure.
Myles McWeeney
Irish Independent
Superbly imagined . . . A wonderful book by a terrific writer
Harry ... Read more
Gwyneth Jones
Guardian
Morrall envisions an all too believable dystopian future in a novel that charms and appals in equal measure.
Myles McWeeney
Irish Independent
Superbly imagined . . . A wonderful book by a terrific writer
Harry ... Read more