For Adam Hardy and his small Berkshire community, hardship is all theyâ??ve ever known. For almost a century after the coming of The Sisters, the survivors of rainswept England have huddled in their tiny communities, scavenging the ruins of the old world. Now, finally, the Long Autumn is coming to an end, and society of a kind is starting to rebuild.
The "Solaris Worlds" series which will bring together award-winning science fiction writers in a shared universe is launched with this work of rural English post-apocalyptic survival literature, as a tyrannical uprising based in Kent turns its attention West.