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FALLOUT: A Saga of Survival in the Aftermath of Nuclear and Biological Warfare
A mesmerizing three-part saga that will keep you gripped from start to finish!
A nuclear attack is imminent and Dr Duncan Blake sets off to a government sponsored meeting in Brighton to advise GPs what to do in its aftermath. No one tells him the meeting’s been cancelled. The devastating attack occurs that night in London and GCHQ in Cheltenham. He’s trapped in the hotel with the only other occupant – duty manager, Alison Smith. Inevitably, they become close and decide to make the perilous journey back to Duncan’s homeland - Gloucestershire. During their travels they come across another survivor – Clare – who has lost everything. The three set up home in a converted barn and adapt to a new way of life. Alison is pregnant.
Alison encourages Duncan to sleep with Clare, thinking that if she has a baby it will finally pull her out of her grief. Another family of survivors join them. Jack, his sister, Lucy, and a child, Daisy, aged seven. They are starving and scared to death of the diseases, rats and other predators, including lions, that surround them. Tragedy and elation become their daily experiences. For 20 years after the nuclear holocaust, this small community live together and build a new culture.
The community needs more people to avoid incestuous relationships. Two head off in search of other survivors and they come across a slave camp. The slaves are trapped, living in appalling conditions, and therefore need little persuasion to leave. Making their daring escape they join the egalitarian community, which can then move on to the next stage of development.
Find out what happens in this compelling story where survival of the fittest is the name of the game.
A nuclear attack is imminent and Dr Duncan Blake sets off to a government sponsored meeting in Brighton to advise GPs what to do in its aftermath. No one tells him the meeting’s been cancelled. The devastating attack occurs that night in London and GCHQ in Cheltenham. He’s trapped in the hotel with the only other occupant – duty manager, Alison Smith. Inevitably, they become close and decide to make the perilous journey back to Duncan’s homeland - Gloucestershire. During their travels they come across another survivor – Clare – who has lost everything. The three set up home in a converted barn and adapt to a new way of life. Alison is pregnant.
Alison encourages Duncan to sleep with Clare, thinking that if she has a baby it will finally pull her out of her grief. Another family of survivors join them. Jack, his sister, Lucy, and a child, Daisy, aged seven. They are starving and scared to death of the diseases, rats and other predators, including lions, that surround them. Tragedy and elation become their daily experiences. For 20 years after the nuclear holocaust, this small community live together and build a new culture.
The community needs more people to avoid incestuous relationships. Two head off in search of other survivors and they come across a slave camp. The slaves are trapped, living in appalling conditions, and therefore need little persuasion to leave. Making their daring escape they join the egalitarian community, which can then move on to the next stage of development.
Find out what happens in this compelling story where survival of the fittest is the name of the game.
319 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 29, 2020
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Gillian Clark
31 books5 followersGillian Clark is a Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol.
Professor Clark’s research field is the relationship of inherited classical culture and late antique Christianity. She works especially on Augustine and on the late Platonist philosophers Porphyry and Iamblichus, and also has a longstanding interest in women’s history and the history of gender. She directs an international collaborative and interdisciplinary project, funded for its first five years by the AHRC, for a commentary on Augustine City of God (De Civitate Dei) to be published in print and electronic versions. Professor Clark is co-editor, with Professor Andrew Louth (Durham), of the monograph series Oxford Early Christian Studies and Oxford Early Christian Texts (OUP). She is also a co-editor of Translated Texts for Historians 300-800 (Liverpool UP) and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Roman Studies. She is Chair of Directors for the Oxford Patristic Conference 2011.
Professor Clark’s research field is the relationship of inherited classical culture and late antique Christianity. She works especially on Augustine and on the late Platonist philosophers Porphyry and Iamblichus, and also has a longstanding interest in women’s history and the history of gender. She directs an international collaborative and interdisciplinary project, funded for its first five years by the AHRC, for a commentary on Augustine City of God (De Civitate Dei) to be published in print and electronic versions. Professor Clark is co-editor, with Professor Andrew Louth (Durham), of the monograph series Oxford Early Christian Studies and Oxford Early Christian Texts (OUP). She is also a co-editor of Translated Texts for Historians 300-800 (Liverpool UP) and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Roman Studies. She is Chair of Directors for the Oxford Patristic Conference 2011.
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