This is just such a masterpiece. It's quite short, and does lend itself to being a children's book, but I think anyone could read it and thoroughly enjoy it. Finch cheers the choir and his own Councillor Walker. But While cheering them up, he also admits or reminds them that the past few months were very harsh and they didnt get the time to celebrate for even a single moment. But after saying this, he is thankful for most of the things that are at least happening for their betterment. He says that they would be managing the farm so that they have something to feed on ( REMEMBER that food was hard to get during the war ). Finch also announces that he had found beverages in Old Man Kershaws cellar and also said that they would be opening some for the appreciation of the hard ships the soldiers had done. Scene 5: The Civil Defense Team is holdingtheir first public officialannouncement in front of the residents of Skipley.

This is such a gripping story. It’s also horribly, heartbreakingly sad. After a nuclear cataclysm transforms the world as they know it, the survivors are thrown into a cruel new reality. Competing for scant, dwindling resources is nothing to the ugly feudal society they’ve all been forced into.

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After Mrs Norton collapses, Mr Norton goes to Griffiths. But Griffith does not let him take her to a Doctor and he has to wait till sun rise. Dumperton tells Griffith to let them go but he doesn't. Dumperton was asked about his wife and he says that his girlfriend left him. Grifiths was also asked about his marriage and he was about to tell him when Mrs Norton collapses and eventually dies. Mr Norton wants them to take her to the doctor but their kids also gave up. Mr Norton blames the death on Griffiths. (This scene is an indication that maybe the CDT really are Purples ) Scene 3: Kershaws Farm. Renton is talking to Maureen and Mike. I don’t mean this as a criticism of 80s YA. This is simply how it worked for a long time. There was no perception that teenagers could handle anything more than the slim thirty thousand words this book contains, no perception they could handle more than cardboard characters. The dark world of a nuclear fallout — a world blighted by dead crops, a poisoned atmosphere, the devastating, long-lasting horrors inflicted by post-mushroom-cloud radiation; the desperate measures people will take to survive; the ugliness and senselessness and heartlessness that some characters will show in their bid to take control of the new world — all this is what the book’s about. I found it all quite sad but politically powerful nonetheless, especially the motives of the "army" that takes control after the blast - did anyone else think "Yeah, that's precisely what would happen"? Ultimately Played Straight with the birth of several healthy babies on a more efficiently equipped commune on Holy Island.First up: I don’t usually mention covers of books, which change from edition to edition, but this one was particularly hideous. I feel like someone let their kid play with Photoshop for ten minutes. Small wonder YA was so unappreciated for so long… In 1994, the book was reprinted with an additional, final chapter. In this revised ending, Ben still dies, but, rather than leave his account behind, Danny takes the ledger with him to Holy Island. Kim is expecting a baby, the fourth of Holy Island, with Danny being the father. If the baby survives, it will be named after Ben. Parental Abandonment: Mrs Lodge was killed in the blast. Mr Lodge is later killed in a raid on the shop.