The Recoverist Quartet is set in the last quarter of the 25th Century in a world transformed by climate change. Britain is a desert archipelago. The privileged live in cities, sheltered from unpredictable storms and lethal heat. They are trapped in their misery, living beneath a false sun, only able to deal with the realities of their world by taking drugs to dull their emotions. The cities are in terminal decline. There are not enough people to sustain them. A man-made virus called the Mercy has made fertility a rare gift.
Outside the cities, people are not considered worth saving. They are the Non-Grata. In northern Britain, they survive only by selling their children to the cities for food, water and energy. Against this canvas, we meet Isobel Twelvetrees, rejected by her city and put outside to die. Then there is The Kind, a group of Non-Grata who have built a different kind of life, even in the south, where the sun burns every living thing to dust. They use technologies long outlawed by the government and so advanced it appears like magic to strangers. They are using their knowledge to imagine a more hopeful future for mankind and are driven by an intelligence that seems more than human. The Kind and Elidir are available from Amazon and other major ebook and paperback bookshops,