The Last day by Andrew Hunter Murray (Hutchinson Hardback £12.99)
The world has stopped turning. The Earth lies in a world half in darkness and the other half in light. Both zones have become uninhabitable and billions have died. They call it "The Slow". There is however a "twilight zone where on the edges of both life can continue. Britain is at the heart of this world. The country is now a police state with a growing "empire on the edge of Europe.
There is however a secret. One that a dying scientist wishes an old student to know. This secret threatens the very world they live in. People will kill or get killed to keep this secret from the survivors of a ravaged humanity. What is it and how will it effect the future.
A real page turner of a thriller that kept me gripped as agents pursued our heroine Ellen Hopper and her former husband through the bedraggled streets of London and beyond. Written by a scriptwriter and researcher on the BBC 2 Quiz QI the reader is gradually eased into the reasons as to how and why the world ended up the way it did along with the inevitable human consequences of the event.
A great first novel by the author and hopefully more of the same quality in the future.
Recommended.
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