The Divide.  Out 28th March 2026. Available from Caper Books, Waterstones, Amazon and, I hope, Daunt Books and Mostly Books in Abingdon.

Notes from Vicki:

Oxford, 2050. The Divide is a wall that splits the country in two. Can Petrichor safely reunite with her sister in Cambridge? A dystopian, though I hope not too depressing, novel where love, resilience and rebellion collide.

My aim was to blend political intrigue with themes of freedom and truth in a fractured, tightly controlled society.

Britain is fractured. The Divide – a vast wall – splits the country from Kent to Cumbria. Families and lovers are torn apart. Civil war and economic collapse have left mistrust, propaganda and fear in their wake.

Petrichor Jones, a specialist in Roman bronzes at the Ashmolean Museum, longs to see her sister Jasmine, who defected years earlier to Anglia. But Oxford, now capital of Wessex, is suffocating. Rumours swirl of the Dark Politic, a clandestine force controlling the media, and Petrichor begins to suspect her own boyfriend may be working against her.

 

And according to the publishers’ marketing team ‘Perfect for fans of Emily St John Mandel, William Boyd, and George Orwell’.