Welcome to London, but not as you know it. Oxford Street burned for three weeks; Regent’s Park has been bombed; the British Museum is occupied by those with nowhere else to go. Lalla has grown up sheltered from the chaos, but now she’s sixteen, her father decides it’s time to use their escape route – a ship big enough to save five hundred people. Once on board, as day follows identical day, Lalla’s unease grows. Where are they going? What does her father really want? What is the price of salvation? Regular readers of The Eloquent Page are well aware of my almost un-heathy addiction to apocalyptic fiction. I’ll begin by reaffirming that admission, I think about the end of the world more than is probably entirely normal. I know this might sound terribly morbid, but let me assure you that it really is not. I don’t wish anyone dead. I certainly don’t want to be around to see it. I’m just insanely curious about what form our end will take, and what will come afterwards. With that in mind, it will not be a surprise when I tell you I am always on the lookout for the next apocalyptic…