Kay Dick | They

9780571370863

03/02/22

PB

107 pages

As performed by Maxine Peake (‘visionary’): 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

This is Britain: but not as we know it.
THEY begin with a dead dog, shadowy footsteps, confiscated books. Soon the National Gallery is purged; eerie towers survey the coast; 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 …