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In a world just ahead of ours, a guaranteed income has made people listless, care homes and cafés are staffed by robots, and everyone is writing books though readers have nearly vanished. The unnamed narrator, who writes thrillers without plots, has recently lost his mother; for twenty years he visited her locked dementia ward and acted the dutiful child. Now something has gone wrong with a covert scheme he joined long ago, and he sets off southward with a companion who alone understands the true aim, passing a curious Archive and a shadowy Service in a chatty driverless car.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

381 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2018 by Atlas Contact

Author's age

55 when first published

ISBN

9789025453411 (original)

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