Description: The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y, about power, privilege, and pressure
Brief description: Scarlett Thomas was born in London in 1972. Her novels for adults include Bright Young Things, PopCo, The Seed Collectors, The End of Mr. Y which was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, and Our Tragic Universe. Her first series for children, The Worldquake Sequence, follows the adventures of Effie Truelove. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent.
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Praise for Scarlett Thomas: "Entrancing" NEIL GAIMAN, co-author of Good Omens
"Her prose is splendidly alive, full of unexpected phrases and delicious cadences . . . like Pratchett, Thomas blends her flippancy and her philosophy perfectly" Guardian