# A Wrinkle in the Skin > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/A_Wrinkle_in_the_Skin > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/A_Wrinkle_in_the_Skin.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wrinkle_in_the_Skin > Source revision: 1333551319 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1965 novel by John Christopher This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "A Wrinkle in the Skin" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2007) (Learn how and when to remove this message) A Wrinkle In The Skin First edition Author John Christopher Cover artist Brian Keogh Language English Genre Science fiction Publisher Hodder and Stoughton Publication date 1965 (UK) Publication place United Kingdom Media type Print (Hardcover) Pages 220 ***A Wrinkle In The Skin*** (also known as *The Ragged Edge*) is a 1965 [post-apocalyptic science fiction](/source/Post-apocalyptic_science_fiction) novel written by the English author [John Christopher](/source/Samuel_Youd).[1] ## Plot summary A massive series of powerful earthquakes on a worldwide scale reduce towns and cities to rubble and plunge the few survivors into barbarism. Most of western Europe is dramatically uplifted, transforming the English Channel into a muddy desert, while elsewhere lands are plunged below sealevel and flooded. The protagonist is Matthew Cotter, a [Guernsey](/source/Guernsey) [horticulturalist](/source/Horticulture) who finds himself one of only a handful of survivors on the former island. Cotter decides to trek across the empty seabed to England, in the faint hope that his daughter has somehow survived. He finds the situation on the former mainland has descended to barbarism, with competing bands of scavengers preying on survivors. He and his companion, a young boy named Billy, meet a captain who has lost his mind, in his ship on the bottom of the Channel. They are welcomed heartily, provided with food, clothes, and lodging, and even shown movies, but forbidden to take any provisions with them when they leave. They finally make their way to the borders of Sussex, where his daughter was staying, only to discover that the land has slipped beneath the sea. Cotter and Billy eventually return to Guernsey, where they are unexpectedly reunited with a group of survivors that they had met on the former mainland. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [John Christopher's Bibliography](http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/john-christopher/) v t e Books by John Christopher The Tripods series The White Mountains (1967) The City of Gold and Lead (1967) The Pool of Fire (1968) When the Tripods Came (1988) Sword of the Spirits trilogy The Prince in Waiting (1970) Beyond the Burning Lands (1971) The Sword of the Spirits (1972) The Fireball trilogy Fireball (1981) New Found Land (1983) Dragon Dance (1986) Other books The Twenty-Second Century (1954) The Year of the Comet (1955) The Death of Grass (1956) The Caves of Night (1958) A Scent of White Poppies (1959) The Long Voyage (1960) The World in Winter (1962) Cloud on Silver (1964) The Possessors (1964) A Wrinkle in the Skin (1965) The Little People (1967) Pendulum (1968) The Lotus Caves (1969) The Guardians (1970) Dom and Va (1973) Wild Jack (1974) Empty World (1977) A Dusk of Demons (1993) Bad Dream (2003) Adaptations No Blade of Grass (1970) The Tripods (TV series) (1984–1985) This article about a 1960s post-apocalyptic novel is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:1960s-post-apocalyptic-novel-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3A1960s-post-apocalyptic-novel-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:1960s-post-apocalyptic-novel-stub) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [A Wrinkle in the Skin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wrinkle_in_the_Skin) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wrinkle_in_the_Skin?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.