The Day of the Triffits

Three men attempt to get from London to John Custance's brother's farm in the dales where they hope to hole up with weapons until civilisation has returned to normal. The story and film that it really reminds me of is the Ealing film based on a story by Graham Green called Went the Day Well. I'm going to read you a little bit here, which will give you a flavour of how good this book is. Okay, so here we go. They have expected to be stopped on the roads by the military and with that possibility in view had devised three different stories to account for the northward journeys of the three cars. It's nearly 24 hours since the cities and large towns

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