Rule Britannia

Daphne Du Maurier

Rule Britannia
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Country
United Kingdom
Published
22 April 2004
Pages
336
ISBN
9781844080632

Rule Britannia

Daphne Du Maurier

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA

In this prescient novel, Daphne du Maurier explores the implications of leaving Europe for a political, economic and military alliance with the United States.

‘It is rather awful, Emma thought as she walked across the fields down to the farm, how this business is leading us all into subterfuge and deception, and we can’t really tell who is friend and who is enemy … ’

Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cosy existence she shares with her grandmother, a famous retired actress, has been shattered: there’s no telephone, no radio - and an American warship sits in the harbour.

England has withdrawn from the European Common Market and, on the brink of bankruptcy, has decided that salvation lies in a union - political, military and economic - with the United States. Theoretically it is to be an equal partnership, but it soon begins to look like a takeover bid.

As the two women piece together clues about the ‘friendly’ military occupation on their doorstep, family, friends and neighbours come together to resist the interlopers.

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