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Love Always

Harriet Evans

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This family’s poisoned. They won’t tell you, but they are.’ From a hot, tense Cornwall...

Careers

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Careers is a game where the players set their own victory conditions. A player may choose to pursue...

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Puss Without Boots

Shari L. Tapscott

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A Puss in Boots Retelling Finding your happily ever after is complicated when your matchmaker is...

The Rising Tide

Sam Lloyd

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HOW DID IT COME TO THIS? The news doesn't strike cleanly, like a guillotine's blade. Nothing so...

Psychological thriller Suspense

ClareR (5726 KP) rated After the Flood in Books

Oct 25, 2021

After the Flood

Kassandra Montag | 2019 | Dystopia, Fiction & Poetry

9.0

(3 Ratings)

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After the Flood is set in a world after the sea levels have risen as a result of Climate Change.

Myra and her daughter Pearl, live on a boat, a precarious life, reliant on the fish they catch. When Myra discovers that her eldest daughter, the daughter that her husband took with him when he left her, may still be alive, she is determined to find her.

This is a pretty bleak book: people live in fear of illness, starvation, storms and pirates. These pirates kill for people’s possessions, take slaves, run ‘breeding ships’ - and they want to build their own territories on dry land.

This is reminiscent of the film Water World in some places - the promise of a better, dry place to live, the strong preying on the weak. It’s also a book about sacrifice and the lengths a mother will go to to protect her children.

This won’t be the book for you if you like a happy ending, but if you enjoy a book that’s beautifully descriptive, both in emotion and seascape, you’ll love this.