Peter Dickinson's first three children's books, The Weathermonger, Heartsease and The Devil's Children, form a trilogy. They are all set in a Britain chronologically of the near future yet also of the past, for the 'Changes' have taken place, causing the country to become an island
… fragmented into a series of rural communities, united by a common hostility to machines of any sort and by a tendency to try to return to the modes of living and thought that characterized the Dark Ages….
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