Friday, 7 April 2017
The Book of Air by Joe Treasure
Release Date: 4th April 2017
Publisher: Clink Street Publishing
Publisher: Clink Street Publishing
Genres: Science Fiction / Dystopian
Retreating from an airborne virus
with a uniquely unsettling symptom, property developer Jason escapes London for
his country estate, where he is forced to negotiate a new way of living with an
assortment of fellow survivors.
Far in the future, an isolated
community of descendants continue to farm this same estate. Among their most
treasured possessions are a few books, including a copy of Jane
Eyre, from which they have constructed their hierarchies, rituals
and beliefs. When 15-year-old Agnes begins to record the events of her life,
she has no idea what consequences will follow. Locked away for her
transgressions, she escapes to the urban ruins and a kind of freedom, but must
decide where her future lies.
These two stories interweave, illuminating
each other in unexpected ways and offering long vistas of loss, regeneration
and wonder.
The Book
of Air is a
story of survival, the shaping of memory and the enduring impulse to find
meaning in a turbulent world.
About Joe Treasure
Joe Treasure currently lives in
South West London with his wife Leni Wildflower. As an English teacher in
Wales, he ran an innovative drama programme, before following Leni across the
pond to Los Angeles, an experience that inspired his critically acclaimed debut
novel The Male Gaze (published by Picador). His second novel Besotted (also
published by Picador) also met with rave reviews.
Website - http://www.joetreasure.com/
Twitter: - https://twitter.com/joetreas
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