‘Spectacular, skilled and moving. It is supremely and alarmingly relevant’ — Fay Weldon. Edgar Hopkins is a retired schoolteacher whose greatest pleasures in life are his chickens and the prospect of winning the next poultry show. Then comes the announcement that will shatter his quiet world entirely: the moon is on a collision course with Earth. What follows is at once darkly comic and profoundly moving — a record of one English village’s struggle to endure the unendurable, preserved in the manuscript Hopkins leaves behind. ‘I loved this book, by turns funny and tragic … It moves between abject despair and good old-fashioned British stoicism with ease. Magical’ — Jeff Noon, Spectator, Books of the Year 2018. Written by R. C. Sherriff in 1939, as Europe stood on the edge of catastrophe, this tragicomic masterpiece of science fiction reads as a prescient warning from history. ‘Intensely readable and touching’ — Sunday Telegraph. The funny and moving story of the apocalypse, as seen from one small village in England.
ISBN 13: 9780241349076
Author: R. C. Sherriff
