Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.7
Points
17.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
101198
Points per Word
0.000168
Page Count
408
Points per Page
0.041667
Description
Set in a future in which the UK has been eroded by climate change and cultural history is disappearing, the discovery of a human skeleton provokes a power struggle. Merrick, a young graduate archaeologist, is led into a politically explosive environment.