Survivors-Audiobook-Carolyn Seymour

I finished listening to this last weekend. Three sittings. I remember about 15 years back, my Mother read the old 70's TV-Tie in PB and told me that it diverged from the series with a tragic ending, but I got wrapped up listening to it and did not see it coming. Very good and nice to see Tom Price (Talfryn Thomas) get a strong character development.

On a sad note. I saw that Myra Frances (wife to Peter Egan and also memorable in Creature from the Pit) died on the 30th March, to Cancer. He posted a video tribute online:

Well at least I put in no spoilers...

As far as I remember, she still features in the later two series, in contact with Jenny & Greg, in her search for her Son, related by way of contact updates through the vine. So she is not written out, just absent from their own efforts to rebuild a community.

Denis Lill (Charles) & Celia Gregory d2008 (Ruth) were also key players in the latter two series, with Greg (Ian McCulloch) guesting in only two episodes of S3 and Charles taking the dramatic lead. 

Series 2 gets tied up in the building of the 'community' which some find wearisome after the dramatic storylines of the fist series, bar the 'Lights of London' two part detour, but they address this with more variety and perils in series 3, which restores some of the post apocalyptic feel. 

The book can be listened to regardless, as it only borrows a few plotlines from s1 before going its own way, being written prior to the later series.