The Rapture

Abstract

The Rapture, by Liz Jensen, follows Gabrielle, an art-therapy based psychologist who, after surviving a devastating accident which leaves her paralyzed from the waist down, is transferred to work at Oxsmith, a psychiatric hospital for criminal minors, where she meets Bethany Krall, a teenager who seems able to predict natural disasters, their place, time, nature and the level of their devastation. With the help of a team of scientists who all put their careers at risk for believing and investigating something so contradictory to science, they manage to shine light on a massively destructive natural disaster, which, in a sequence of earthquakes and tsunamis, submerges the whole world. The main characters manage to survive the flooding as the book comes to a close.