The Future Future by Adam Thirlwell Hardback Book 9781787334403

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 GOLDSMITHS PRIZEIts the eighteenthcentury and Celine is in troubleA terrific novelFINANCIAL TIMESA radically beautiful new novelSHEILA HETI author of Pure ColourParis 1775 Celines husband is mostly absent Her parents are elsewhere Meanwhile men are inventing stories about her about her affairs her sexuality and addictionsAll these stories are lies but the public loves them spreading them like a virus Celine can only watch as her name becomes a symbol for everything rotten in this society ruled by men high on colonial genocide natural destruction and crimes against women To survive Celine and her friends must band together in search of justice truth and beautyFantastical funny and blindingly bright The Future Future follows one woman on an urgently contemporary quest to clear her name and change the world