A dark, savagely comic novel from the bestselling author of Chart Throb.

Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where 'sharing' is valued above all, and privacy is considered a dangerous perversion. Trafford wouldn't call himself a rebel, but he's daring to be different, to stand out from the crowd. In his own small ways, he wants to push against the system. But in this world, uniformity is everything. And even tiny defiances won't go unnoticed. Ben Elton's dark, savagely comic novel imagines a post-apocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a sex-obsessed, utterly egocentric culture. In this world, nakedness is modesty, independent thought subversive, and ignorance is wisdom. A chilling vision of what's to come? Or something rather closer to home?

Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where what a person 'feels' and 'truly believes' is protected under the law, while what is rational, even provable, is condemned as heresy. A world where to question ignorance and intolerance is to commit a Crime against Faith.

Imagine it. Or just wait until After The Flood.

On a hot Sagittarian morning in the year 56 ATF, Trafford Sewell struggles to work through the usual crowds of near-naked commuters. He is confronted by the intimidating figure of his Parish Confessor. Why has Trafford not been streaming his every moment of sexual intimacy on to the community website like everybody else? Does he think he's different or special in some way? Better than his fellow man and woman? Does he have something to hide?

Ben Elton's dark, savagely comic novel imagines a post-apocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a confessional sex -obsessed, egocentric culture to create a world where nakedness is modesty, ignorance is wisdom and privacy is a dangerous perversion. A chilling vision of what's to come? Or something rather closer to what we call reality?

Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where 'sharing' is valued above all, and privacy is considered a dangerous perversion.

Trafford wouldn't call himself a rebel, but he's daring to be different, to stand out from the crowd. In his own small ways, he wants to push against the system. But in this world, uniformity is everything. And even tiny defiances won't go unnoticed.

Ben Elton's dark, savagely comic novel imagines a post-apocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a sex-obsessed, utterly egocentric culture. In this world, nakedness is modesty, independent thought subversive, and ignorance is wisdom.

A chilling vision of what's to come? Or something rather closer to home?

Ben Elton?s career encompasses some of the most memorable and incisive comedy of the past twenty-five years.His TV writing and performance credits include The Young Ones, the Blackadder series, Saturday Live, The Man from Auntie and The Thin Blue Line. He was recently awarded the 2007 Honorary Golden Rose at the International Television Festival in Lucerne.

He has written three hit West End plays and the books for three hit musicals. These include Popcorn, The Beautiful Game and We Will Rock You, which he also directs.

Six of Elton?s eleven previous novels have been UK No.1 bestsellers. They include Stark, Popcorn (Golden Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel 1996), Inconceivable (adapted by Elton into the film Maybe Baby, which he also directed), Dead Famous, High Society (WH Smith People?s Choice Award 2003) and The First Casualty.

He is married with three children.

2008-08-23 This was SO written by a man

Blind faith had the potential to be an intersting satire on the modern technological world and the resulting complete lack of privacy. Unfortunately there was so much written about barely covered, artifically enlarged boobs, lack of privacy resulting in all sexual activity being available on the internet for everyone to see, and compulsory posting of birthing videos, that I was hard pressed to see the real story under all this male driven crap.
The point the book was making about how life might be after the flood caused by global warming was valid, but the book itself was so sordid that I only fifnished it because I was reading it for a book group. I shall be interested to see how this group of 17 ladies reacts - might even update my review!