Told with P. D. James’s trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future … future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.
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The Children Of Men is unlike any other book by P.D.James I have ever read. It was an excellent choice for my book group. The author, Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL is more usually known as P. D. James. She is an English crime writer and a life peer in the British House of Lords.
The Children of Men is a …
PD James was known for her whodunnits but this book is a quality dystopian novel. Literary and thought-provoking.
I saw the film based on the book many years ago, when it first came out and I had wanted for a long time to read the novel. Now that I have, I can say they are both wonderful but completely different stories. Their only similarity is the original premise: in a world facing an environmental catastrophe for some reason humanity has lost its …