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The Children of Men, Paperback / softback Book

The Children of Men Paperback / softback

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Award-winning P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction, plots this atmospheric and disturbing novel in the year 2021.

Children of Men is a brilliant mystery possessing all of the qualities which distinguish P.D.

James as a novelist. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiatt, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel.

Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere.

That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman leads him into contact with a group of dissenters.

Suddenly his life is changed irrevocably, as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind. PD James is the world's pre-eminent crime writer, most famous for her Adam Dalgliesh mysteries and for her bestselling titles Death Comes to Pemberley and The Murder Room.

Children of Men was adapted into a hit film in 2006, directed by Alfonso Cuarón the film starred Clive Owen, Michael Caine and Julianne Moore.

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