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by Lockwood, Patricia | Fiction & related items
Published 06/01/2022 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 224 pages
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Staff Pick, Catherine: “Both funny and devastating. A beautiful exploration of the clash between our real and digital lives.”
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The only book shortlisted for both The Booker Prize and The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021. This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It’s about what happens when real life collides with the increasing absurdity of a world accessed through a screen.
It’s about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary. It’s a meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the most original voices of our time.
‘An utterly distinctive mixture of depth, dazzling linguistic richness, anarchic wit and raw emotional candour’ Rowan Williams
