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The Children of Men - P.D. James

Description: ISBN 0571233775 / Genre: Fiction / Author: P.D. James / Edition: Film tie-in edition / Paperback / 336 Pages / Book is published ... more

The Children of Men - P.D. James ... 2006-09-07 by Faber and Faber

Newest Review: ... is Theo, who isn't always a sympathetic protagonist as he can be quite irritating and also cold. He is the cousin of the ... more

... Warden of England who is basically a dictator. The book begins with Theo's diary, in which we find out more about his cold, unemotional character. Theo becomes accidentally involved with a group of dissidents and starts to question the way society is now run. The older members of society are filled with despair and the young people are vicious. The last children to be born are known as Omegas - they are basically allowed to do as they wish and many are sociopaths. I found this a good read and although it wasn't ...more

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The Children of Men - P.D. James: Menacing Children (508 words)
by - written on 22/04/09 (Very useful, 438 readings)
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P.D. James is a successful British crime fiction writer but having never read her work before, I picked this book up out of interest after vaguely hearing about the film based on it. "The Children of Men" is not a crime fiction novel but is instead a dystopian novel set in a future England where no-one has been able to have a child for twenty-five years. The novel is all about the consequences of this mass childlessness on society. I have to say I quite enjoyed it and thought it had a nicely menacing air. It was quite indebted to Orwell's "1984" in some ways but was by no means a replica. The main character is Theo, ... Read the complete review