The Death Of Grass POSSIBLE SPOILERS

[RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie]

Finally tracked this down after seeing it on a lot of post-apocalypse threads. It was okay but I found it hard to believe that people would be killing each other quite so quickly - and some of the dialogue was pretty unrealistic, I thought. Overall, I was rather disappointed, although I liked the idea. :(

Do you mean the nuclear bomb bit or the general anarchy?

I can believe that law and order and ethical considerations that stop people murdering each other would disintergrate quite rapidly if people were facing almost certain starvation with no realistic hope of help from any official sources.

Quite rapidly, yes - but this was within a day of them realising that the government had been lying. A day seemed quite incredible - perhaps I'm too naive!

They already had food shortages and rationing before that point, so people would be feeling slightly hungry to begin with.

I daresay it'd take a bit longer if people had full larders and bellies at the point when they realised things weren't going to get better.

Nope - you can't convince me! I still think (hope?) I'd be a little less quick to kill.

Interesting, this was a Radio 4 book of the week a few years ago, which we heard while driving around Rutland on holiday. David Mitchell read it and did it brilliantly - it came across as really quite chilling and we ended up finding ways to be in the car at that time every day so we could hear it!

Maybe it works better as something to listen to, rather than read to yourself.