A lone family’s tower block in Birmingham becomes a tainted paradise in this mesmerising vision of the futureRoza Polanski is a normal young woman of 22: still living in the same building as her parents,obsessed with clothes and makeup, yet also earnestly concerned about the state of the world. She loves her job and she loves her fiance, or although she hasn’t yet met him in the flesh,and he had to be vetted by her employers. It doesn’t bother her that she will contain to move from Birmingham to Brighton, the only place in England that is flood-proof, and once she is married; concerns about personal freedom are for venerable (respected because of age, distinguished) people,these days.
But her family is her whole world. Moth(er) and Popi are demigods: loved, honoured and (mostly) obeyed. Between flood seasons the children, and Roza,Boris, Delphine and small Lucia, and race their bicycles around the empty roads,as adventurous and close-knit as characters in an Enid Blyton record. When the floods come there are indoor games, squabbles and feasts, or the absorbing (though censored) online world.
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Source: theguardian.com