The Last Green Road

When Britain falls, it does not fall in fire all at once. It rots slowly through empty surgeries, flooded roads, silent villages, dead power lines, ration tokens, and the names of the living written into ledgers by men who believe survival should be measured, priced, and controlled.After the collapse, Nora Quill survives in the fen village of Larksea, where hunger, floodwater, and fear have become part of ordinary life. Then a message reaches her from the west, carrying the impossible suggestion that her brother Adrian may still be alive. His trail leads toward the Welsh hills, to a place known only in rumours: a hydro station with working power, clean water, medicine, and enough food to keep people alive through the ash years.To reach it, Nora must cross a broken country where every road has its price. Along the way she passes drowned villages, abandoned service stations, ruined churches, black markets, hunger courts, guarded canals, and settlements that have learned to call cruelty order. But the greatest danger is not the lawless dead world left behind. It is the new one rising from the ruins.The Ledger Men do not raid without purpose. They count, classify, ration, punish, and decide who is useful enough to live. Their leader, Caldwell Pike, believes civilisation can be rebuilt by turning people into entries in a book. As Nora draws closer to the promised refuge, she begins to understand that the last safe place in Britain may not be a sanctuary at all, but a prison with lights still burning.Bleak, atmospheric, and deeply human, The Last Green Road is a post-apocalyptic survival novel about family, endurance, moral compromise, and the terrifying systems people build when the world has ended but power still remains.

Pagina's: 192, Paperback, Andrew locke