They are trigger-happy, and one of them shoots and kills a local farmer's dog.Īfter some hours of civil confusion, a television announcement is made by the prime minister due to recent economic and military failures on the continent, the UK and the USA have joined together as a single nation, to be called USUK. An American warship has anchored in the bay and United States Marines are marching over the fields. One morning, Emma wakes to the sound of aeroplanes overhead. They share a large house near the coast with Mad's six ‘maladjusted’ adopted sons who range in age from 3 to 18.
Plot summary Įmma, 20, lives with her elderly grandmother, Mad (short for Madam), a famous retired actress, in the small village of Poldrea in Cornwall. The novel is set in a fictional near future in which the UK's recent withdrawal from the EEC has brought the country to the verge of bankruptcy. Rule Britannia is Daphne du Maurier's last novel, published in 1972 by Victor Gollancz.
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