| Floodland | |
| Author: | Marcus Sedgwick |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Children's Fantasy novel |
| Publisher: | Dolphin Paperback |
| Release Date: | 2 Mar 2000 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages: | 128 pp (first edition, paperback) |
| Isbn: | 1-85881-763-3 |
| Oclc: | 41960153 |
Floodland is a children's fantasy novel by Marcus Sedgwick, published on 2 March 2000 by Orion Children's Books. Floodland won the Branford Boase Award in 2001 for an outstanding first published novel.[1]
Floodland is set in the near future where most of the United Kingdom is covered by water. A girl named Zoe is left alone by her parents in the ruins of Norwich, which has become an island where food and water are becoming increasingly scarce.[2] She escapes to Eels Island (Ely Cathedral) where she discovers a sinister society run by a strange boy named Dooby.[3] Will she ever find her parents?