**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
