The most ambition and exciting novel yet from the Booker shortlisted author of C and Satin
Island. Bodies in motion. Birds bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that moves the sun and
other stars? Where's our fucking airplane? What's inside Box 808 and why does everybody want
it? Deep within the archives of time-and-motion pioneer Lillian Gilbreth lies a secret.
Gilbreth helped birth the era of mass observation and big data but did she also discover a
'perfect' movement that would 'change everything'? An international hunt begins for the one box
missing from her records and we follow contemporary motion-capture consultant Mark Phocan
across geo-political fault lines and experimental zones in his search for it. And all the while
work is underway on the blockbuster film Incarnation an epic space tragedy... 'Dazzling... The
Making of Incarnation feels utterly original utterly new utterly magical' Neel Mukherjee
author of The Lives of Others 'Hugely interesting energetic wise and well written' GQ 'A rich
and fascinating exercise in observation' Independent
