The back of the book jacket says: "Like P. D. James bestselling stories of detections, The Children of Men contains all the trademark elements that have made her a world-class novelist: brilliant characters, surprising reversals, rich landscapes, and deep shadows of menace and murder. But now, in a radical departure, this author offers us an extraordinary new novel unlike any of her previous works...except in its wholly familiar, unfailingly tense, tremendously satisfying suspense."

"It begins in England, in 2021, in a world where all human males have become sterile and no child can ever be born again. Theodore Faron, Oxford historian and cousin to the omnipotent Warden of England, a dictator of great sublety and total power, has nearly resigned himself to apathy and a future without a future. Then he meets Julian, a bright attractive woman who wants Theo to join her circle of unlikely revolutionaries, a move that may shatter his shell of passivity...and maybe, just maybe, hold the key to survival for the race."