![]() ![]() The Book of the Unnamed Midwife provides an account of the first months following the collapse of society the title character, once a nurse, is now driven to save women from sexual slavery and provide them with access to contraceptives. As a consequence, women are now a rare commodity, hunted down by men who roam the ruins of civilisation. A plague of post-apocalyptic proportions has wiped out most of humanity, but particularly mothers and newborns. Meg Elison’s The Book of Flora is the final novel of a trilogy that began with The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, one of my favourite novels of 2014 and a deserved winner of the Philip K. ![]()
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