Station Eleven
This somehow lovely dystopian exploration of our future paints an unimaginably barren world after the majority of the human population has been wiped out by the sudden arrival of a killer flu.

This somehow lovely dystopian exploration of our future paints an unimaginably barren world after the majority of the human population has been wiped out by the sudden arrival of a killer flu.
Like an Antipodean cross between the Kennedys and the Kardashians, the Deans are a family whose celebrity, crimes and crazy schemes leave an indelible mark on an entire continent.
Fruit farmer Talmadge’s solitary life of seeding, pruning and picking in his meticulous orchard is uprooted when two wary pregnant girls arrive on his doorstep fleeing a life of abuse.
iPods, food banks and Primark mark this out as a story firmly set in post-Millennium England, and is a fun and surprising state-of-the-nation satire exhibiting our all too unpleasant present through the eyes of disturbingly familiar characters.