This is the third book I've read from the shortlist, after the winner - The Narrow Road to the Deep North and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.
An exercise in imagination. What would happen if there were another Holocaust, a "Twitternacht", during which a certain race were done away with, and society lost at a stroke its most feared and reviled enemies but also its best purveyors of art and sardonic comedy?
Set in small rural community resembling Cornwall, but difficult to identify as all names have been changed as part of the repentance of "Project Ishmael", the book follows the ups and downs of the love affair between two outsiders and misfits.
Not an easy book to read, but definitely thought provoking.
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