I Have Waited, and You Have Come : A Story of Obsession and Survival

from gaskella

Set in a near future where global warming has wreaked Mother Nature's revenge on the Earth and made large parts of the globe uninhabitable due to rising water levels, Rachel lives alone in a old mill in the Yorkshire Dales. Jacob used to live with her but he left. Rachel still keeps his study as ...

from jan.fleming

A bleak prediction of the consequences of rising sea levels, McDonagh's book is set in a nightmare vision of Cheshire in the not-too-distant future: "When we first came here the golf course was a progression of green velvet swirls. Later it became the makeshift burial ground for the first wave of...

from jkdavies

I picked this up on a shopping trip in Edinburgh, it promised darkness and obsession. It delivered an alienated wash of rain and mud and isolation, some great descriptions, and a main character that was hardly a character at all. It was wonderfully atmospheric, but the atmosphere of solitariness ...