Complex sentence: Cotter decides to trek across the empty seabed to England, in the faint hope that his daughter has somehow survived, but finds the situation on the former mainland has descended to barbarism, with competing bands of scavengers preying on survivors.
Split into simpler sentences: Cotter decides to trek across the empty seabed to England, in the faint hope that his daughter has somehow survived. He finds the situation on the former mainland has descended to barbarism, with competing bands of scavengers preying on survivors.