Children of Men, The

Toronto: Penguin Books Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Canada Ltd., 1993. Light Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Heavy Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. COVER PHOTO BY: Alex Murchison. COVER DESIGN BY: Bruce W. Bond. MOVIE TIE-IN: This novel was the basis for the 2006 feature film of the same name. CONTENTS: BOOK ONE Omega January-March 2021 BOOK TWO Alpha October 2021. SYNOPSIS: When Omega came it came with dramatic suddenness and was received with incredulity. Overnight, it seemed, the human race had lost its power to breed... Omega was the year 1995, when the last child was born on earth. Twenty-five years later the world's population is seriously declining, and many countries have descended into anarchy. But Xan Lyppiatt, the charismatic Warden of England, is running things with a sure hand. Despite the imminence of worldwide human extinction, everything appears to be running smoothly. But is it? Theo Faron simply doesn't want to know. The reclusive academic and one-time advisor to Xan wants merely to enjoy the consolations left to him. Then he meets the young woman, Julian, who tells him about a small group of radicals who plan to challenge the Warden's absolute authority. Reluctantly involved in the radicals' struggle and increasingly drawn to the enigmatic Julian, Theo takes action that will irrevocably alter his life and involve him in unimaginable terror. P. D. James was born in Oxford in 1920 and educated at Cambridge High School. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service as an administrator, and the experience she gained from her job helped her with the background for Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower and A Mind to Murder. In 1968 she entered the Home Office as principal, working first in the Police Department concerned with the forensic science service and later in the Criminal Policy Department. She retired in 1979. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a governor of the BBC and a member of the board of the British Council. She served on the Arts Council and was chairman of its Literary Advisory Panel from 1988 to 1992. She has served as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. P. D. James has twice been the winner of the Silver Dagger Award of the Crime Writers' Association and in 1987 was awarded the Diamond Dagger Award for services to crime writing. In 1983 she received the O B E and was created a life peer in 1991. She has been a widow for over twenty-five years and has two children and five grandchildren. Her novels include An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, Innocent Blood and The Skull Beneath the Skin (which are also published by Penguin in one volume as Trilogy of Death), Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower and Death of an Expert Witness (also published by Penguin as A Dalgliesh Trilogy), Cover Her Face, Unnatural Causes, A Taste for Death, A Mind to Murder, Devices and Desires, which was short-listed for the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award in 1989, and The Children of Men. She is co-author, with T. A. Critchley, of The Maul and the Pear Tree.. First Thus 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.