The Memoirs of a Survivor [Available to Order]

Many years into the future, city life has broken down, communications have failed and food supplies are dwindling. From her window, a middle-aged woman—our narrator—watches things fall apart: hordes of people migrating to the countryside, gang of children roaming the streets.

One morning, a young girl, Emily, is brought to the house by a stranger and left in her care. A strange, precocious adolescent, unafraid of the harsh world outside, she is slowly drawn into the tribal streetlife and its barbaric rituals. Meanwhile, the narrator watches and waits, and as civilisation crumbles, retreats into her hidden world, where reality fades and the past is revisited...