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The End of Nightwork

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SKU:
9781783789542
UPC:
9781783789542
Author:
Cottrell-Boyce, Aidan'
'ISBN:
9781783789542'
'Publisher:
GRANTA BOOKS '
'Language:
English'
'Pages:
'
'Format:
Paperback'
'Published Date:
18/01/2024'
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Author: Cottrell-Boyce, Aidan

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 18 January 2024 by GRANTA BOOKS in the United Kingdom.

Paperback |
200 x 128 x 20 | 204g

Pol suffers from a very rare hormonal disorder that ages him erratically; when he was thirteen, his body aged ten years overnight, and now in his early thirties, he still has the outward appearance of a twenty-three-year-old. But with his condition dormant, Pol and his wife Caroline manage to live an ordinary life in Kilburn. They're happy enough, even if having a young child has put something of a strain on their marriage. That and Pol's obsessive interest in the writings of an obscure seventeenth-century Puritan prophet, Bartholomew Playfere, and his premonitions of ecological disaster and the end of the world. But while Pol is failing to complete his research on Playfere, he encounters a radical new movement that argues that all economic and political events are part of an aeon-long struggle between the old and the young - that the 'hoarist' habit of violence, their need to conquer, has also affected how they treat the planet. The leader of this popular movement predicts an imminent inter-generational conflict - father against son, mother against daughter - that echoes Playfere's own prophecies. Against this increasingly fraught backdrop, Pol's dormant condition threatens to resurface - putting both the safety and happiness of his family at risk.