Floodland (novel)

Floodland is a children's fantasy novel by Marcus Sedgwick, published on 2 March 2000 by Orion Children's Books. Floodland won the Branford Boase Award in 2001 for an outstanding first published novel.

Floodland
First edition
AuthorMarcus Sedgwick
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's Fantasy novel
PublisherDolphin Paperback
Publication date
2 Mar 2000
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages128 pp (first edition, paperback)
ISBN1-85881-763-3
OCLC41960153

Plot

Floodland is set in the near future where most of the United Kingdom is covered by water. She is left alone in the ruins of Norwich but escapes to Eels Island (Ely Cathedral) where she discovers a sinister society run by a strange boy named Dooby. Will she ever find her parents? His first book, Floodland, was published in 2000, and it received the Branford-Boase award for the best debut children's novel of that year.[1] Publishers Weekly said that "Despite some page-turning chapters, Zoe and her story lack the credibility to sustain readers through the contradictory themes and sometimes unimaginative prose."[2]

References
  1. "Marcus Sedgwick obituary". the Guardian. 1 December 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  2. "Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 21 December 2022.


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