Why a Booktrail?
A frozen dystopian London awaits..
The White City
Why a Booktrail?
A frozen dystopian London awaits..
What you need to know before your trail
‘Every day when I stand on high ground and look towards the Tower, to where the river used to be, I see it melt a little more.’
Hera has known great loss over decades of endless winter. The first snows coincided with the arrest of her brother on terrorism charges, and since then she has witnessed the total collapse of normal life in a devastated London. Her only source of comfort through it all has been her relationship with Raphael. Now, as the thaw begins, can she at last track down her elusive lover?
Within this compelling vision of a dystopian near-future, Roma Tearne offers us a moving study of human endurance.
Locations
Reset- England - London
- A: Tower of London
- B: Embankment
- C: The Shard
- D: 10 Downing Street
- E: White City
Travel Guide
London
Finally after twenty-seven years, the ice is melting, But in this devastate city with its once – commercial wharves and gleaming shards, its empty cathedrals and ivory minarets, no one notices. Life amongst the ruins goes on in the same hopeless way and the pulse of existence seems lost
The half-buried homes, the outlines of trains standing motionless on frozen railway tracks, the useless street lamps and the iced-up car parks all remain abandoned,
The city has a “Gothic petrified grandeur” to it
This is a not-too-distant London but one clearly set in modern times – the city is living in fear – not only has the weather ruined and controlled it all, but the fear of terrorism rules in a city which is ‘a hotchpotch of cultural compromises’. A Muslim narrator ties the story together.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The White City
Destination: London Author/Guide: Roma Tearne Departure Time: Future
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