The Flood - Softcover

Maggie Gee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0863565123 ISBN 13: 9780863565120

Publisher: Saqi Books, 2005

Synopsis

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 detract 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 this title

Review:

'Eloquent, angry and beautiful...her best book yet.' Hilary Mantel

'Gripping, original and highly entertaining - Maggie Gee at her superb best.'JG Ballard

'Dazzling ... alternately lyrical and austere ... unbearably touching.'Observer

'The Flood, for all its passion and intricacy, is also a very funny book ...rewarding ... carefully written, using language echoing the water that ebbs and flows, and eventually floods the pages.' Times Literary Supplement

'...exhuberant ... I thoroughly enjoyed it.' Sunday Telegraph

'The Flood is Gee's most apocalyptic vision to date ... an incredible feat of sustained imaginative continuity.' Guardian

'Gee's admirably dyspeptic and frequently funny novel is a wake-up call to us all' Mail on Sunday

'A satirist this lyrical, warm-hearted and imaginative is, like a unicorn, a rare and precious beast.' Weekend Australian

'A rare writer who is willing to address issues topical to contemporary Britain' Daily Telegraph

'An addition to an eccentric but valuable tradition of English fiction ... in which the visionary and the mundane mingle, producing effects by turn comical and grand.' Sunday Times

'Gee's ability to ask big "what if?" questions while never losing sight of the humdrum details of life ... gives her un-brave new world credibility.' Independent

'A playful apocalypse.' The Bookseller

'Startling, insidious imagery' --Metro

'The Flood is Gee's most apocalyptic vision to date ... an incredible feat of sustained imaginative continuity.' The Guardian 'Gee's admirably dyspeptic and frequently funny novel is a wake-up call to us all' Mail on Sunday

'A satirist this lyrical, warm-hearted and imaginative is, like a unicorn, a rare and precious beast.' --Weekend Australian

' ...a rare writer who is willing to address issues topical to contemporary Britain' Daily Telegraph

' ... an addition to an eccentric but valuable tradition of English fiction ... in which the visionary and the mundane mingle, producing effects by turn comical and grand.' Sunday Times

'Gee's ability to ask big "what if?" questions while never losing sight of the humdrum details of life ... gives her un-brave new world credibility.' The Independent

;'A playful apocalypse.' The Bookseller

' ... startling, insidious imagery' Metro

' ... a surprising melange of fantasy, realism, and very dry humour' -- Big Issue

About the Author:

Maggie Gee is the author of eleven acclaimed novels, including The White Family (shortlisted for the Orange and IMPAC prizes), My Cleaner and My Driver, and a memoir, My Animal Life. She is a Fellow and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature, and Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages. Maggie Gee was awarded an OBE in 2012 for her services to literature. She lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Saqi Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0863565123
• ISBN 13: 9780863565120
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328