Survivors of a global plague battle for life on an empty planet. A
gripping vision of a post-apocalyptic world...
'A fine piece of British post-apocalyptic fiction'
'Nation's novel is based on his original cult series...and is all the
better for it, being far, far more gritty and realistic' SUNDAY SUN
A virus has wiped out 95 per cent of the world's population in just a
few weeks, leaving the remaining 5 per cent to stay alive in a world
devoid of the most basic amenities - electricity, transport and
medicine.
The few survivors of the human race are forced to fall back on the most
primitive skills in order to live and re-establish some semblance of law
and order.
Abby Grant, widowed by the plague, moves through this new dark age with
determination, sustained by hope that her son, who fled his boarding
school at the onset, has survived. She knows she must relearn the skills
on which civilisation was built. With others, she founds a commune and
the group return to the soil. But marauding bands threaten their
existence.
For Abby, there's a chance for a new life and love when she encounters
James Garland, the fourteenth Earl of Woodhouse, who is engaged in a
desperate fight to save his ancestral home. But more important, she must
find her son.
