The Sixth Seal

Another post world destruction novel. High seriousness although often funny in a way that doesn't always seem to be intentional. The world is ending in plague and coloured snow and those who survive, who happened to be underground (for one excuse or another), find only hair, dust and dentures in place of bodies. John Wyndham does this kind of thing well but I was never sure that Mary Wesley knew what she wanted to do. There are some thoughtful elements woven in but it remains a curious mixture.