Book Review

Flood Child

By Emily Diamand

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Flood Child is set in the 22nd Century, in a partially flooded England. Following climate change, the surviving English have gone back to simpler ways turning their backs on a technological past while Scotland is in the ascendancy, seeking to expand its borders and power-base. Both must deal with the Reavers, troublesome piratical tribes who pillage the waterways.

Lilly Melkun, an English fisher-girl, is out sailing with her sea-cat when the bloodthirsty Reavers come raiding - and kidnap the Prime Minister’s daughter. Her village in turmoil, Lilly decides to find the girl. In a daring sea dash she sets out with an extraordinary ransom tucked inside her belt: a mysterious talking jewel from a past computer age, that she later discovers everybody wants.

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