The World After

An exhilarating yet touching story of personal discovery and adventure based in a reality that was all too nearly our own...Mankind has come shockingly close to destroying the world that we live in a surprising number of times. It is a matter of historical fact that on the 26th of September 1983 one man made a choice that prevented a devastating nuclear war.In The World After that near miss was not a near miss.Twenty years after a protracted worldwide nuclear war a community of survivors are living on an island off the coast of the UK in a symbiotic relationship with an aircraft carrier and the remnants of her crew under the command of Admiral Gill.The story is narrated by Badger a tough and tenacious seventeen year-old who lost both parents many years ago. After an ambiguous signal is received from the mainland a spark of hope is ignited.When Gill will not risk further lives and resources to search for the ghost of a father lost ten years previously Badger sets off alone on a perilous rescue mission.