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 Somewhere in the United Kingdom, an eight year old boy is removed from his home in the middle of the night. He is a victim of an extraordinary experiment.

In an attempt to reform society, the government has divided the population into four groups, each group representing a different personality type. The land too, has been divided into quarters. Borders have been established, reinforced by concrete walls, armed guards and rolls of razor wire.

Plunged into this brave new world, the boy tries to make the best of things, unaware that ahead of him lies a revelation that will change everything he believes in and will, in the end, put his very life in jeopardy.

A remarkable genre-defying novel about the country we live in.

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An extremely strange premise told with total commitment. If you like the surrealism of Murakami or Ishiguro (or even Harry Potter, with which it shares some odd details), definitely worth a listen. I should provide a warning that while largely eerie rather than violent there are very disturbing scenes towards the end.



Agree with the reviewer that the ending disappoints, the fragile spell petering out just a little too soon. I'll give it 4 stars though, when it's working it's one of the most haunting, memorable books I've ever listened to. The reading is excellent, expertly holding the dreamlike mood.

Wonderful but flawed

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I had read Soft by the same author and loved it. This book takes a similar dystopian future vision, but on a grander scale. There is something about the deft writing style that breathes credibility into a preposterous foundation. For long sections it was breathtaking. Then it suddenly ran out of steam, the coincidences started piling-up and it was gone. I'm still glad to have heard it though - it's a flawed treasure.

Gloriously over-ambitious

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