Boomtown

Boomtown is the third novel from Whitbread-, British Book Awards- and Perrier-nominated writer Nick Walker. It is the about the life of a city which lives under the shadow of a volcano, and the tensions and trauma that thereby affect its citizens. Half of Boomtown lives in a state of readiness, half of it lives in a state of recklessness, but when the sirens start to wail one Christmas Eve, it becomes clear that its the reckless ones that have been in charge all this time, and the city's preparations for a natural disaster leave the population doomed.Satirical, witty, immensely clever, allegorical and absolutely gripping, in Boomtown Nick Walker has created a world that is defined by the constant threat of impending natural disaster and has populated it with a surreal community hell-bent on outwitting the most powerful force in the world.