In store now! No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
Patricia Lockwood’s Booker and Women’s Prize for Fiction longlisted novel finally arrives in paperback! A novel of our time, born from our twitter threads and hyper-media anxieties. Tender without pulling any punches, funny yet written with urgency and gravitas, this is fiction with it’s finger fully on the pulse. How much of ourselves are we willing to give away? Do you feel comfortable with social-media megacorporations owning your very self-identity?
This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It's about what happens when real life collides with the increasing absurdity of a world accessed through a screen. It's about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary.
It's a meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the most original voices of our time
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No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
Paperback £8.99
As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats—from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness—begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything.
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