The sun brightens in the East, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. The air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has ended the world.

But two young women have survived: Ren, a young dancer trapped where she worked, in an upmarket sex club (the cleanest dirty girls in town); and Toby, who watches and waits from her rooftop garden. Is anyone else out there?

"Atwood knows how to show us ourselves, but the mirror she holds up to life does more than reflect ... The Year of the Flood isn't prophecy, but it is eerily possible" - Janette Winterson

"A sharp observer of the female psyche... Atwoods richly fertile imagination plays to exuberant and often comic effect" - Daily Telegraph

"A gripping and visceral book that showcases her pure storytelling talents with energy, inventiveness and narrative panache" - New York Times

"A tour de force... as pact as a thriller... laced with Atwoods dry wit, and her savage, credible invention" - Erica Wagner

Book is in mint questions.

Questions welcome :)