The Children of Men

P. D. James · first published 1992 · ISBN 9781556908613

The novel is set in England in 2021, where no child has been born for 25 years. Humanity is sterile and aging. An authoritarian government under the Warden offers order but no hope. Theo Faren, the Warden's cousin, lives isolated from society until he meets a young woman and is drawn into a resistance movement. The narrative accelerates toward a question James leaves deliberately unanswered: what does it mean to struggle for a future you'll never see?