**Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022 **From the Costa Award winner a
highly inventive and and humane novel about our relationship with technology and our addiction
to innovation.This is the tale of a new technology an alternative history that unfolds over
many decades. It is a fable told through a constantly shifting cast of characters all drawn
into the world of a machine that slowly alters every life it touches.But in this unending quest
for progress what will happen to the things that make us human: the memories the fears the
love the mortality? As we push towards a brave new world what do we stand to lose?'Such a
super novel' Wendy Erskine'A clever book...that will have you thinking about the machines in
your own life' Sunday Times
