A return to the Dark Ages looms – how would you survive?
Dwindling resources, an unreliable water supply, relationship tensions and serious illness: these are some of the challenges facing our small group of survivors in a world without power or communications.
As a benign spring gives way to a drought summer, it becomes impossible to grow food. More survivors join the group, but they discover that there are other, dangerous people out there.
Can this new ‘family’ achieve a sustainable life? Adam and Pip travel north to visit a large community that they hope may give them answers, but instead they find fear and exploitation.
In the Heat of Summer follows the fortunes of these new-age pioneers at Whitehouse Farm as they learn to build a future together.
Following on from Quiet World,this book finds Adam and his small group settling into their new life at the farm in Dorset. As the beautiful spring weather gives way to a long, hot summer and the ready food supply runs out, the group has to confront the question that Adam has been asking himself – how can they survive in a world without power or communications?
With their number growing, Adam’s responsibilities grow heavier and when he makes contact on the radio with an established group, he is excited to meet them and see what he can learn. But when he and Pip get visit their community on the Welsh borders, they find a disturbing reality. Back in Dorset a newcomer upsets the equilibrium and Adam finds himself at the centre of an uneasy triangle.
They all struggle to remain optimistic as they face the challenges of preparing for the long, dark winter ahead. When a younger member of the group is taken seriously ill, they are forced to confront the reality of life without modern medicine. Tensions build and the group is torn apart.