Floodland
First edition
AuthorMarcus Sedgwick
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's Fantasy novel
PublisherDolphin Paperback
Publication date
2 Mar 2000
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages128 pp (first edition, paperback)
ISBN1-85881-763-3
OCLC41960153

Floodland is a children's fantasy novel by Marcus Sedgwick, published on 2 March 2000 by Orion Children's Books. Floodland won the Branford Boase Award in 2001 for an outstanding first published novel.[1]

Plot

Floodland is set in the near future where most of the United Kingdom is covered by water. A girl named Zoe is left alone by her parents in the ruins of Norwich, which has become an island where food and water are becoming increasingly scarce.[2] She escapes to Eels Island (Ely Cathedral) where she discovers a sinister society run by a strange boy named Dooby.[3] Will she ever find her parents?

References

  1. ^ "Marcus Sedgwick obituary". the Guardian. 1 December 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  2. ^ Mulrooney, Martin (20 December 2010). "BOOK REVIEW – Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick". Alternative Magazine Online. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  3. ^ "Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 21 December 2022.

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