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theoneguy Since: Sep, 2010
2011-02-19 09:38:53

First one's right, but the second one isn't what I was looking for. To expand, the second work's first 'story' was set in modern Britain, and dealt with a young schoolgirl's family's attempt, and ultimate failure, to survive after a nuclear attack on the UK. It had a Bittersweet Ending where the narrator was dieing from radiation sickness, but knew that her younger sister would at least survive.

libriatrix Since: Apr, 2013
2013-04-30 18:50:57

Ah, I think the second book is one I was considering starting a query for myself. The mutants evolve white hair all over their exposed skin right? And the family trying to survive after the nuclear attack are very careful to seal up every opening in their house with black plastic and heavy tape — all the windows and doors — and spend miserable weeks/months subsisting on the food and water in their emergency supplies. They all have cabin fever pretty bad but the littlest girl has it in the weirdest way: she crawls under the dining room table which is covered with a tablecloth down to the floor and she refuses to come out again. Ever. She just stays under the table. Then finally the family starts getting sicker and sicker and they know that radiation is getting into the house somehow but they don't know how ... then they realize they forgot to tape up the chimney. Somehow the little girl intuitively sensed the danger and she is the only one who now has a chance of surviving the sickness. Also, the dad of the family had been driving home from work when the attack happened and he was able to turn around and drive back, as he was a scientist who worked in an underground bunker. He had to abandon his family as there was no possible way (because of traffic jams and distance) that he could have saved any of them but himself. I feel like the book might have been called Children of the Mind or something like that.

Irrisia Since: May, 2009
2013-05-01 12:33:49

Libriatrix, I'm pretty sure the book you're describing is called Children of the Dust, by Louise Lawrence. I'm not sure if that's also the book the OP is looking for, but it would fit.

libriatrix Since: Apr, 2013
2013-05-01 19:02:32

Thanks, Irrisia. That's definitely my book. Hopefully it's also the OP's.

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