The Rapture

Details the progress of an autistic and severely damaged nine-year-old called Mikey, as Ruth, his nurse, struggles to cope with both the demands of her role in his recovery and her own growing attachment to him. Ruth’s story is cut with those of Mikey’s rich and inadequate parents and an adult patient at the Unit where she cares for the boy. Harry believes he’s living in the last degenerate and desolate days before the Rapture, when God will gather the chosen ones and transport them to heaven before destroying the world and creating it anew.