Three dystopian novels by an award-winning author that imagine a world
where humankind has suddenly and violently rejected modern technology.
Something has gone very wrong in England. In a tunnel beneath Wales one
man opens a crack in a mysterious stone wall, and all over the island of
Britain people react with horror to perfectly normal machines.
Abandoning their cars on the roads and destroying their own factories,
many flee the cities for the countryside, where they return to farming
and an old-fashioned life.
When families are split apart and grown-ups forget how they used to
live, young people face unexpected challenges. Nicola Gore survives on
her own for nineteen days before she's taken in by a Sikh family that
still remembers how to farm and forge steel by hand. Margaret and
Jonathan brave the cold and risk terrible punishment in order to save a
man's life and lift the fog of fear and hate that's smothering their
village. And Geoffrey and his little sister, Sally, escape to France
only to be sent back to England on a vital mission: to make their way
north to Wales, alone, and find the thing under the stones that
shattered civilization--the source of the Changes.
Prolific author Peter Dickinson was known for "keeping up a page-turning
pace," and these adventure-packed novels are some of his most important
contributions to science fiction (The Guardian).