Ierse roos

Patrick Wyatt, Annemarie van Ewijck

"After the Great Fall, there has sprung up in England a newly primitive society, where only scattered remnants of the Golden Age are accessible to people living in minutely organized city states. Men, mostly coffee-coloured, are masters or slaves, women are merely breeders, reduced to a status where to connect love or learning with a woman is equally heretical. The Irish Rose is a young girl whose fair-skinned beauty makes her a genetic wonder and whose secretly acquired education threatens the heirarchical society which strives to keep her in place."