Īfter rescuing all the neighbourhood dogs, Ruby sets off on a journey that will take her the length of the country – surviving in the only way she knows how. Ruby knows she has to get to London to find her dad, but she just doesn’t know where to start. Even a drop of rain would infect your blood, and eat you from the inside out. People weren’t prepared for the rain, got caught out in it, didn’t realize that you couldn’t drink water from the taps either. In Virginia Bergin’s novel, Who Runs the World, which won the Tiptree Award in 2017, we find ourselves in a postapocalyptic world, sixty years after a virus has killed nearly every human with the XY gene on the planet. That was two weeks ago, and now Ruby is totally alone. They turn on the radio to hear panicked voices – ‘It’s in the rain. See all books authored by Virginia Bergin, including The Rain, and The Storm, and more on. Not cool.Īs she and Caspar shiver in the kitchen, it starts to rain. Sixty years after a virus has wiped out almost all the men on the planet, things are pretty much just as you would imagine a world run by women might be: war has ended greed is not tolerated the ecological needs of the planet are always put first. One minute sixteen-year-old Ruby Morris is having her first proper snog with Caspar McCloud in a hot tub, and the next she’s being bundled inside the house, dripping wet, cold and in her underwear. An apocalyptic thriller, The Rain by Virginia Bergin is a coming of age story of survival in a scary, weather-beaten world.
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