num_pages: 13
description: For fans of Children of Men Years and Years &amp; Station Eleven a postcard from a future Britain thats closer than we think. A beautiful book: thought-provoking eerily prescient and very witty. Brit Bennett author of The Vanishing Half 'Water courses through its pages as rising sea levels heighten inequalities buoy populist politicians and wash away every certainty of civilisation. But theres also the novels prose  its liquid grace and glinting sparkle  and the sheer irresistibility of a narrative that sweeps along with a force that feels tidal in its pull.' The Observer ''You said that you would come back. You looked me in the eye and said that. Well if you had this is what you would have seen: soft wood black cracks fridges in the road. The broken spines of old rides at Dreamland.' In the coastal resort of Margate hotels lie empty and sun-faded For Sale signs line the streets. The sea is higher  its higher everywhere  and those who can are moving inland. A young girl called Chance however is just arriving. Chances family is one of many offered a cash grant to move out of London - and so she her mother Jas and brother JD relocate to the seaside just as the country edges towards vertiginous change. In their new home they find space and wide skies a world away from the cramped bedsits theyve lived in up until now. But challenges swiftly mount. JDs business partner Kole has a violent charismatic energy that whirlpools around him and threatens to draw in the whole family. And when Chance comes across Franky a girl her age she has never seen before  well-spoken and wearing sunscreen  something catches in the air between them. Their fates are bound: a connection that is immediate unshakeable and in a time when social divides have never cut sharper dangerous. Set in a future unsettlingly close to home against a backdrop of soaring inequality and creeping political extremism Rankin-Gee demonstrates with cinematic pace and deep humanity the enduring power of love and hope in a world spinning out of control. 
language: English
title: Dreamland
publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK