A Wrinkle in the Skin
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| A Wrinkle In The Skin | |
| Author | Samuel Youd (as John Christopher) |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton |
| Publication date | 1965 (UK) |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 220 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
A Wrinkle In The Skin (aka The Ragged Edge) is a 1965 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel written by the British author Samuel Youd under the pen name of John Christopher.[1]
[edit] Plot summary
A massive series of powerful earthquakes on a worldwide scale reduce towns and cities to rubble and plunge the survivors into barbarism. Most of western Europe is dramatically uplifted, transforming the English Channel into a muddy desert, while elsewhere lands are plunged below sealevel and flooded.
The protagonist is Matthew Cotter, a Guernsey horticulturalist who finds himself one of only a handful of survivors on the former island. 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.
Cotter, along with some survivors from the mainland, eventually returns to Guernsey.
