![]() ![]() The local Commissioner issues an order that the injured and infirm are to be taken out of the town and placed at the roadside so they can be taken to hospital: this turns out to be front for his secret plan to kill off those who will be a burden. Shortly after the war, Danny meets a girl named Kim. With so much food in their stockroom, the Lodges have plenty to live on, but as the weeks pass, other people begin fighting over food. His brother Ben and their father have survived, as they were in the cellar, which is used as a stockroom. Arriving there, Danny finds the town in ruins, and learns that his family's shop has collapsed, killing his mother. The narrative begins on a hillside, where the protagonist, Danny Lodge, encounters a man in a radiation suit, who steals his bike and orders him to return to his home town, the fictional Yorkshire town of Skipley. The plot follows the adventures of a teenage boy as he struggles to survive in the north of England after a nuclear war has devastated the country. Brother in the Land is a 1984 post-apocalyptic novel by the British author Robert E. ![]()
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