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They

By: Kay Dick, Carmen Maria Machado - introduction
Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh Young
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Summary

As heard on BBC Radio 4's Front Row: the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish Britain, THEY are coming closer.
'A creepily prescient tale ... Insidiously horrifying!' Margaret Atwood
'A masterpiece of creeping dread.' Emily St. John Mandel
'As creepy, tense and strange as when I first read it 40 years ago.' Ian Rankin

This is Britain: but not as we know it. THEY are coming closer . . .
THEY begin with a dead dog, shadowy footsteps, confiscated books. Soon the National Gallery is purged; eerie towers survey the coast; savage mobs stalk the countryside destroying artworks - and those who resist.

THEY capture dissidents - writers, painters, musicians, even the unmarried and childless - in military sweeps, 'curing' these subversives of individual identity. Survivors gather together as cultural refugees, preserving their crafts, creating, loving and remembering. But THEY make it easier to forget ...

Lost for over forty years, Kay Dick's They (1977) is a rediscovered dystopian masterpiece of art under attack: a cry from the soul against censorship, a radical celebration of non-conformity - and a warning.
©2022 Kay Dick and Carmen Maria Machado (P)2022 Faber & Faber
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'A creepily prescient tale ... Insidiously horrifying!' Margaret Atwood

'A masterpiece of creeping dread.' Emily St. John Mandel

'As creepy, tense and strange as when I first read it 40 years ago.' Ian Rankin

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I've finished a book and still have no idea what it was about. The narration was terrible quoting every "he said" "I said" which just kept interrupting the flow. If there are different characters in a book, narration should act out the voices instead. A brilliant example of this is in the narration of "Skelliq"

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