After Me Comes the Flood
A Novel

This was an extremely puzzling novel that by no means lived up to its intriguing blurb...it's dry and meandering and feels much longer than its fairly slight page count. It starts off fine - it's nicely, if simply, written and the mysterious nature of the plot gives it an interesting edge. And then......more

I read this book a long time ago, so this will be a difficult review to write. I suppose I was waiting for a heatwave to hit London so I can be in the right mood to write this and a heatwave is something you will wait for for a long time in the UK. But I did spend half of this week sitting in a pudd......more

Oh dear. Pretentious, tedious; wafer-thin characterisation; no beginning, middle or end. Not a fan.......more

(First read in 2014; reread April 2025.) I was nervous to revisit After Me Comes the Flood. I adored this book unreservedly when I first read it, and remembered it as a favourite, but you only have to look at the average rating to see that it’s not very well regarded. As soon as I cracked it open, t......more

I have just wasted another 20 minutes trying to write a review. I read the book. It was readable I just can't work out the point of it. Disappointing. But I did finish it.......more