In the Beginning

From the author of The End of the World is Flat.. 'A coruscating satire on currently trendy anti-science lunacy' Richard Dawkins. When Tara Farrier returns to the UK after along spell as an aid worker in war-torn Yemen, she's hoping for a well-deservedrest. But a cultural battleground has emerged while she's beenaway, and she's unprepared for the sensitivities of her new colleagues at aninternational thinktank. A throwaway reference to volcanic activity millions ofyears ago gets her into hot water and she discovers she belongs to the groupreviled by fashionable activists as 'Young Earth Rejecting Fascists', or'Yerfs'. Faster than she can say 'Tyrannosaurus Rex', she is at the centre of agruelling legal drama. In thekeenly awaited follow-up to his acclaimed The End of the World is Flat,. SimonEdge stabs once again at modern crank beliefs and herd behaviour withstiletto-sharp satire.