A Wrinkle in the Skin

A Wrinkle in the Skin

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name = A Wrinkle In The Skin
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image_caption = Cover of first edition (paperback)
author = Samuel Youd (as John Christopher)
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = Hodder and Stoughton
release_date = 1965 (UK)
media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 220 pp
isbn = NA
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"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. [ [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/john-christopher/ John Christopher's Bibliography] ]

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. He finds the situation on the former mainland has descended to barbarism, with competing bands of scavengers preying on survivors. He and his companion, a young boy, finally make their way to the borders of Sussex, where his daughter was staying, only to discover that the land has slipped beneath the sea.

Cotter, along with some survivors from the mainland, eventually returns to Guernsey.

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