The Flood
Price range: £4.99 through £7.99
- ISBN
- 9780863565120
- Pages
- 328
- Published
- February 2005
About the Book
President Bliss is handling a tricky situation with customary brio, but after months of ceaseless rain the city is sinking under the floods. The rich are safe on high ground, but the poor are getting damper in their packed tower blocks, and the fanatical ‘Last Days’ sect is recruiting thousands.
When at last the sun breaks through the clouds Lottie heads off to the opera, husband Harold listens to jazz and their ditsy teenage daughter Lola fights capitalism by bunking off school. Shirley takes her twin boys to the zoo. The Government – eager to distract attention from a foreign war it has waged – announces a spectacular City Gala. But not even TV astrologer Davey Lucas can predict the extraordinary climax that ensues.
About the Author
Maggie Gee is the author of seventeen critically acclaimed books, which have been translated into more than fifteen languages. These include the novels The Red Children, My Cleaner and The White Family (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), and a memoir, My Animal Life. Gee is a Fellow and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. She was awarded an OBE in 2012 for her services to literature.
Reviews
‘Gripping, original and highly entertaining – Maggie Gee at her superb best.’ J.G. Ballard
‘Dazzling … alternately lyrical and austere … unbearably touching.’ The Observer
‘Eloquent, angry and beautiful ... her best book yet.’ Hilary Mantel
‘The Flood, for all its passion and intricacy, is also a very funny book.’ The Times Literary Supplement
‘Champions the varieties of human resilience in the face of overwhelming odds.’ The Telegraph
Awards
- Orange Prize 2004 (Longlisted)
