A dystopian novel set in London. For sixteen years the Earth has baked and no girls have been born. Karen is the last girl and Steven her gay twin. Dad turns their home into a fortress as women take the chance to rule the world. Their eyes are on Steven. Perhaps, with a little medical interference, he could be the saviour of the world. AUTHOR: Martin Goodman writes fiction and nonfiction. He holds the Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Hull, where he is Director of the Philip Larkin Centre for Poetry and Creative Writing. His biography of the public health pioneer J.S. Haldane, Suffer & Survive won first prize for Basis of Medicine in the BMA Book Awards 2008. His first novel On Bended Knees was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize.