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The Price

Matthew Barrow

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Dystopian novel telling the story of a revolution through the lives of twelve individuals.
Depicts a non-violent revolution; idealistic and hopeful while drawing a realistic portrait of how political
regimes operate.
A serious yet playful book inspired by the author’s love of classic science fiction from the 1950s to the
1980s.

In a future England, governed by the authoritarian Party of Order and Nation, individuals are selected at random
to live in enforced poverty. The policy is called ‘the Price’: in order for the majority to live well, the policy states,
a minority must go without. Equality is impossible.

One morning, office worker Krystan Hoad is told that he has been assigned to pay that price. As his world is
turned upside down, a story of revolution unfolds through snapshots of the lives of twelve interconnected
individuals: a network of dissidents called The Dream League; a robotics genius persecuted by a corrupt police
officer; a mysterious agent of the resistance; a wealthy gallery owner leading a double life; a questioning civil
servant at the heart of government; and a young woman with a secret mission...

Through these and others, a portrait unfolds of life under the shadow of the Price: the surveillance drones and
police androids that maintain order, life at the bottom and the top, and the beginnings of an uprising...

Matthew Barrow grew up in Gloucester and now lives in Cambridge. He works in London as a librarian and
has published poems in various places over the years including The North, The Rialto and The Poetry Village.
The Price is his first novel.

Publication Date: 28th March 2024 £10.99 ISBN: 9781805142966
Thema subject category: FL – Science fiction
paperback 198 x 129 mm 200 pp Portrait Author location: Cambridge

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