Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.

P. D. 詹姆斯（P.D. James, 1920—2014）

英国作家，她在英文世界享有盛誉，被誉为“当代推理小说女王”。自其创作以来获奖无数，其中包括推理小说界的两个最高奖项——“钻石匕首奖”和“大师奖”。她是为数不多的同时拿下两项大奖的作家之一。此外，她也是继柯南•道尔、 阿加莎•克里斯蒂之后，被请进“国际犯罪小说名人堂”的第三位作家！

她一生写了20部作品。其中，唯有《人类之子》不是推理题材，却是她深刻批判权力，热烈歌颂生命的重要作品。2006年，本书由阿方索•卡隆执导，被改编为同名电影，被BBC评选为“21世纪 100部伟大的电影”（100 greatest films of the 21st Century）第13位。

P. D. 詹姆斯的作品具有很高的文学性，她获得了伦敦大学等八所高校的荣誉博士学位，曾担任英国作家协会主席、艺术委员会文化片区主席、布克文学奖评委主席，其文学观深刻独到，一生受人尊敬与喜爱。