The British Omegas are prohibited from leaving the country but workers from poorer countries are lured and made to do the undesirable work then sent back once they reach 60.

Nevertheless, they are prized for their youth and are thus treated to luxurious lifestyles and are never punished. The members of the youngest generation, called “Omegas”, are now all adults but are spoiled, violent, and contemptuous of their elders.

In desperation, people are treating newborn animals as their babies. People last gave birth in 1995 and humanity is facing imminent extinction.

The world population is steadily decreasing and there is mass infertility. Charm is always genuine it may be superficial but it isn’t false. No one has it who isn’t capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Her dystopian novel, The Children of Men, was adapted into a 2006 feature film starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, and Michael Caine.Ĭharm is often despised, but I can never see why. In the 1980s, several of James’ mystery novels were made into television shows and aired in the UK as well as in other countries such as the USA. James is most popular for her detective series starring the policeman Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard. In 2008, she was inducted into the International Crime Writing Hall of Fame at the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards. She became a life peer in the House of Lords in 1991 and President of the Society of Authors in 1997. She has won several awards for her writing and was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1983. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Literature. Much of her work feature UK’s bureaucracies, such as the National Health Service and the criminal justice system. James used her work experience in many of her novels. She continued being a public servant until her retirement. Two years after her first novel Cover Her Facewas published, she began working in the criminal section of the Home Office in the UK. She studied hospital administration and worked in the National Health Service from 1949 to 1968. James was forced to be the family breadwinner until her husband died in 1964. The couple had two daughters, Jane and Claire, but when her husband returned from World War II, he was mentally ill and was placed in a psychiatric institution.

She worked for several years before she married army doctor Ernest Connor Bantry in 1941. Her father, Sidney James, was a tax inspector.ĭue to financial constraints and her father’s belief that girls did not need higher education, James left school when she was 16 years old. She studied at the British School in Ludlow and Cambridge High School for Girls. Phyllis Dorothy James, commonly known as P.D.

The Children of Men by P.D. James