Julia

Julia

Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Paperback Published on: 04/07/2024
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Synopsis

London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of IngSoc and the rule of the Party and its leader Big Brother, Julia is a model citizen - cheerfully cynical, believing in nothing and caring not at all about politics. She knows how to survive in a world of constant surveillance, Thought Police, Newspeak, Doublethink, child spies and the black markets of the prole neighbourhoods. She's very good at staying alive.

But Julia becomes intrigued by a colleague from the Records Department - a mid-level worker of the Outer Party called Winston Smith, she comes to realise that she's losing her grip and can no longer safely navigate her world.

Seventy-five years after Orwell finished writing his iconic novel, Sandra Newman has tackled the world of Big Brother in a truly convincing way, offering a dramatically different, feminist narrative that is true to and stands alongside the original. For the millions of readers who have been brought up with Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, here, finally, is a provocative, vital and utterly satisfying companion novel.

  • Publisher: Granta Books
  • ISBN: 9781783789160
  • Number of pages: 400
  • Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm

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Julia
Starts strong but quality drops off significantly
At first I was excited about this retelling of one of my favourite books, and the reviews on the cover gave me a lot of hope for it. But after about 100 pa... READ MORE
Adam Kirk
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