Editorial Reviews
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"Gripping, original and highly entertaining--Maggie Gee at her superb best."--J.G. Ballard
"Eloquent, angry and beautiful . . . her best book yet. --Hilary Mantel
"A ‘Must-Read Book’ for 2004."--Daily Mail
"The Flood is Gee’s most apocalyptic vision to date . . . an incredible feat of sustained imaginative continuity."--Guardian
"Exuberant . . . I thoroughly enjoyed it"--Sunday Telegraph
"Gee's ability to ask big 'what if?' questions while never losing sight of the humdrum details of life . . . gives her un-brave new world credibility."--The Independent
"Dazzling . . . when it comes to desire, fear, madness and greed, Gee is unbeatable, her prose alternately lyrical and austere . . . unbearably touching."--The Observer
"Maggie Gee writes with passionate conviction about multicultural Britain. Apocalyptic themes drive her plot . . . [her] voice is in turn brisk and lustrous."--Financial Times
"An addition to an eccentric but valuable tradition of English fiction . . . in which the visionary and the mundane mingle, producing effects by turn comical and grand."--The Sunday Times
"The Flood, for all its passion and intricacy, is also a very funny book …rewarding . . . carefully written, using language echoing the water that ebbs and flows, and eventually floods the pages."--TLS
"A rare writer who is willing to address issues topical to contemporary Britain."--Daily Telegraph
"Gee's admirably dyspeptic and frequently funny novel is a wake-up call to us all."--Mail on Sunday
"Novel of the week . . . Maggie Gee's characters are larger than life . . . she describes their feelings and actions with such sensitivity and such extraordinary powers of human observation as to make the reader shudder with recognition . . . it moves the spirit."--The Tablet
"A hall of mirrors: everything is familiar but distorted . . . a whistle-stop tour of pre-apocalyptic life."--Literary Review
"A surprising melange of fantasy, realism, and very dry humour."--Big Issue
"Startling, insidious imagery."--Metro
The Flood,Maggie Gee,Saqi Books,0863565123,Fiction,Fiction - General,Literary,Popular English Fiction,Fiction / Literary
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