" And that’s the world they’re going to walk through now. Home is seventy-odd miles away. Seventy miles of England’s green and pleasant land, all gone to the hungries and as safe to wander in as it would be to dance a mazurka in a minefield. A bewildering prospect, even if that were all. And "
― M.R. Carey , The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl with All the Gifts, #1)