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apocalyptic
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Bram Stoker Award-winner
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company town
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corruption
dark satire
dark thriller
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domestic thriller
Dystopia
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Farmer-Bowens
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horror thriller
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Linda Farmer
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literary thriller
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Post-apocalyptic
post-apocalyptic thriller
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psychological thriller
Russell Bowen
satirical thiller
Shirley Jackson Awards
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suburban thriller
thriller
Utopia
Product details
- ISBN 9781835410325
- Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jul 2024
- Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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From the author of Good Neighbours, described by Gillian Flynn as ‘wildly entertaining’. An absorbing and astute satirical thriller about a family’s odyssey into an exclusive enclave for the wealthy that might not be as ideal as it seems.
As the outside world literally falls apart, Linda and Russell Farmer-Bowen and their teenage twins are offered the chance to relocate to Plymouth Valley, a walled-off company town with clean air, pantries that never go empty, and blue-ribbon schools. The family jumps at the opportunity. They’d be crazy not to take it. This might be their last chance at survival.
But fitting in takes work. And the strange residents fervently adhere to a group of customs and beliefs called Hollow... but what exactly is Hollow? Finally, thanks to Linda’s medical skills they begin to find acceptance, and everything seems fine. Sure, Russell starts hyperventilating through a paper bag in the middle of the night, and the kids have drifted like bridgeless islands, but at least they’ll survive. But something isn’t right. The more Linda learns, the more frightened she becomes. Should the Farmer-Bowens be fighting to stay, or fighting to get out?
Sarah Langan grew up on Long Island, in a town called Garden City, but not on a crescent bordering a park. She got her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and also received her Master's in Environmental Health Science/Toxicology from New York University. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughters.
She's received three Bram-Stoker awards, and her work has often been included in best-of-the year lists and anthologies. She's a founding board member of the Shirley Jackson Awards, and works in both film and prose.
