The Chrysalids Jane Kentish meets and falls in love

meets and falls in love with sweet-natured Lotte

memories of the previous night return to a spiral of anxiety and anger

suspicion and terror engulf the isolated community

he is renowned for his works of exquisite and matchless beauty

The Chrysalids Jane Kentish meets and falls in loveThe Chrysalids is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, who exist in a state of constant alert for any deviation from what they perceive as the norm of Gods creation, deviations broadly classified as offenses and blasphemies. Offenses consist of plants and animals that are in any way unusual, and these are publicly burned