“The Midwich Cuckoos” Original Novel and Movie

wyndham john - midwich cuckoos - First Edition - AbeBooks

(Above: the rare first ed. UK dust jacket)

A novel I once taught when I started teaching high school English in 1972-3. It’s a 1957 UK SF novel set in an English village in which all the women become simultaneously, mysteriously pregnant during a bizarre gas ‘Dayout’.

The first (b & w 1960 UK) movie was based closely on the original. George Sanders and the kids are pretty good in it. It even had a sequel.

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