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|title=The Wall

|sort=Wall, The

|publisher=Quartet Books

|date=June 2013

|summary=Separated from the dead outside world by a huge transparent wall we experience the life of the last living human. This story is about a woman learning new skills and coping with being in control of her own life and those of the animals now in her care.

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One morning our protagonist awakens to a world in which she appears to be the sole living human inhabitant. A mysterious transparent wall has been erected around a large area in the Austrian mountains where our narrator has been holidaying, a wall that is unbreakable and through which she can see that the world outside has come to a complete standstill. Our narrator is faced with living in total isolation and forced to learn how to survive.

I can’t imagine that there is another book about the end of humanity that is anywhere near as homely and at times idyllic as this. The tale has a very strange quality to it due to this and ceases to be a story about the end of the world but more about coming to terms with nature and living off the land. ''The Wall'' is an interesting and well written story that is not at all what I expected and for me it is a story that seemed to fall a little flat. There's a lot to like, with a rural way of life described well and in an appealing way, but it didn’t particularly grip me although I’m sure people who like a laid back read would enjoy it a lot more.

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