The The Kind: 2 (The Recoverist Quartete)

Who is the Lamplighter?Friendless exile.Champion of the non Grata.A mystery to herself.It is 2472. The British Isles have been transformed by climate change into a desert archipelago. The wealthy and privileged have retreated to high-tech walled cities. Those beyond the walls are known as the Non-Grata. They live a precarious hand-to-mouth existence surviving on the charity of the cities. In return these non-people must pay a Quota a tax paid in human life. Specifically they give the rich something their money cannot buy: children.Isobel Twelvetrees has been put outside the walls of her city and left to die in the lethal heat for a crime she cannot remember committing. She was saved by someone or something but when she wakes the only companion she has is a dog with odd coloured eyes. When she learns the terrible truth about the plight of the Non Grata she turns into a new kind of warrior. As she crosses continents with the threadbare armies of the Non Grata in a deadly race against time to destroy the Quota and right historic wrongs she starts to uncover the truth about herself and what she left behind.