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    The Children of Men

    Written by P.D. James

    Narrated by Daniel Weyman

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    The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.
    Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFaber & Faber
    Release dateJan 15, 2015
    ISBN9780571319572
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    The Children of Men
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    P.D. James

    P. D. James (1920–2014) was born in Oxford in 1920. She worked in the National Health Service and the Home Office From 1949 to 1968, in both the Police Department and Criminal Policy Department. All that experience was used in her novels. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy, and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award and the National Arts Club Medal of Honour for Literature. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991.

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      I liked it. Perhaps a little too ponderous, but that's P.D. James's way. Found the audiobook easier to read. It was cute to see how the 2021 of the her then-future, as at 1992, turned out more technologically sophisticated than what she must have imagined. So the futuristic novel ends up looking like historical fiction. Imagine thinking about paper maps in 2021, haha! Characters didn't have cell phones or use social media. Haha.