The Flood

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 was one of Granta's 'Best of Young British Novelists' in 1983. Her other books include My Cleaner, The Flood and Light Years (Saqi).The Ice People will be published by Telegram Books in the US in 2008. She is chair of the Royal Society of Literature.