I thought I’d be getting a story about the slow degradation of society and the return of human savagery in response to a harsh new world in which crops do not grow and the infrastructure has collapsed under the strain.
I was expecting something different to this, I’ll admit. Published in 1962 just two years after Nigeria achieved independence, it imagines a reversal of the colonial relationship between Britain and some of the African countries previously under its rule when climate change turns everywhere north of the equator into a winter wasteland. The World in Winter is very much a book of its time. And as this is a book from the Motherload boxes, I get to throw up my Digging for Gold flag too – hurrah! Hence, while I read The World in Winter for Bookish Valhalla’s Backlist Challenge January prompt of a winter theme, I am only now getting round to posting it. For the first time in forever I have a little stash of posts ready to publish.
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