Dreamland: An Evening Standard 'Best New Book' of 2021

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He emerges from this ‘deep-dive’ into a devastated landscape, and, later, embarks on a cross-Europe road trip, as he tries to reach Africa with two fellow survivors, who are sisters. Olivia Sudjic, author of Asylum Road ‘Entrancing… A dark and devastating funhouse ride through curtailed innocence and apocalyptic experience.

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Theirs is a great first love, blazing bright and furious amid the poverty and the pain, the perfect counterweight that’s needed to make the novel sing.Pubs open and shut at random, the booze subsidised to the point of being free to keep the locals docile along with the kem. And when Chance comes across Franky, a girl her age she has never seen before well-spoken and wearing sunscreen something catches in the air between them. A huge seller in Japan, this is the story of seven teenagers from a quiet suburb of Tokyo who wake one morning to find their bedroom mirrors shining, beyond them a magical castle with a set of clues which, if so Narrator Chance arrived as a small child, funded by the government to leave an overcrowded London along with her protective big brother, JD, and Jas, their young mother, an art school dropout whose brightness is dimmed by addiction.

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The band’s compelling story is told by a multitude of voices interviewed by journalist S Sunny Shelton.As well as assessing other key battlegrounds in Greece, Turkey, Iran and Spain, perhaps the most intriguing chapter considers the possibilities beyond our world. Hot on the heels of the aid charities, a mysterious company known as LandSave arrives in Margate and starts to employ local men.

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But there’s also the novel’s prose – its liquid grace and glinting sparkle – and the sheer irresistibility of a narrative that sweeps along with a force that feels tidal in its pull.Driven by the African concept of Ubuntu, “I am because we are”, she rises to become a senior adviser to the United Nations, changing communities for the better across the world. A single mum, Jas is offered a cash grant to relocate to Margate with her son JD and daughter Chance.

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A decade ago a former Conservative leader of the council went to prison for property-related misdemeanours carried out during his time in office. So again, I think that fits my theme—what I love in all these books is that there’s a texture of a life we know and realism. It’s apt, then, that after scenes of seat-edge tension and heartbreaking devastation, what Chance learns should be this: that sometimes, the thing that saves you is having someone else to look after.D. and her younger brother Blue have is sheer grit and determination, driven by a ceaseless need to survive, an impulse which not always rewarded and which comes up emptyhanded. Yes, tell us a little bit about Dreamland, your own recent book which features a near-future dystopia. This march to an increasingly unjust society rife with social inequality and political extremism is documented through the eyes of Chance, a young girl-then-woman who has been brought to the fading coastal resort of Margate by her once middle class, now junkie mother who has a predilection for choosing the entirely wrong type of men. Jude was mourning the end of something almost impossibly intimate, but Dreamland faces up to much broader, collective losses in the story of 16-year-old Chance, discovering life and love while all around her the world is crumbling.