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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.

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A major city, London by any other name, is slowly drowning in a flood caused by months of persistent rain. Residents are coping as best they can as the infrastructure crumbles, but the pervasive dampness is soul-sapping. In addition, the nation's leader has committed his people to war in a distant land. However, celebrity astronomer Davey Luck has learned of an even greater threat whose destructive powers could dwarf those of rising waters and falling bombs. Maggie Gee has produced eight previous novels, drawing acclaim and award nominations along the way. The author reintroduces characters from earlier books, setting up an intricate network of relationships in which everyone, from myriad backgrounds, appears to be interconnected. This could have been a much bleaker novel but Gee has a poetic style that searches for, and celebrates, beauty amid the chaos. 'The Flood' eloquently conveys a sense of the fragility of our lives and our environment. (Kirkus UK)

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Maggie Gee's bestselling novel The White Family (Saqi) was shortlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize for Fiction. She was chosen as one of Granta's best new writers in 1983. Her works include Light Years (Saqi), The Burning Book, Grace, Lost Children and The Ice People. She has a doctorate in the twentieth-century novel, and is a Fellow and Council Member of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London.

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