The Children of Men

Name: The Children of Men
Brand: Faber & Faber
SKU: 9780571342211
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By (author): P. D. James

ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'

The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.

Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman leads him into contact with a group of dissenters. Suddenly his life is changed irrevocably as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind.

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Weight: 294g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 05 Apr 2018
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780571342211

About P. D. James

P. D. James was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime writer. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray and their long and successful series of mysteries. Her works include Cover Her Face (1962) An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972) Innocent Blood (1980) Children of Men (1992) and the Jane Austen-inspired Death Comes to Pemberley (2011).James was born in Oxford in 1920. She won awards for crime writing in Britain America Italy and Scandinavia including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities was awarded an OBE in 1983 and created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors and stood down from this role in 2013.