Speak for England
By James Hawkes
August 08, 2005ISBN: 1-59692-141-2
Format: Hardcover Genre: Fiction Pages: 338
Price: $23.50 Rights: U.S. & Canada for English Language Other Rights: William Morris Agency, Inc.
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About the Book
Brian Marley should be counting his winnings as victor of Britain’s ultimate reality TV show. Instead, he’s stranded on a jungle island after a helicopter crash wipes out the television crew. His ill-fated luck takes a turn when he falls from a precarious cliff and lands in a lost world.
Awaking in a village founded by survivors of a 1958 airplane crash, Brian discovers an idyllic community modeled after pre-Sixties England and overseen by the stern but judicious Headmaster. But when he uncovers the Headmaster’s methods of survival, the village’s quaint idealism proves to be founded on something far more sinister. With rescue imminent, Brian finds himself at the center of a clash between English cultures separated by fifty years of history.
Satirical and insightful, Speak for England explores the changing world by asking whether it ever really changes at all.