Book description
'An intriguing fantasy.' Sunday Telegraph Uncumber lives at a time
in the distant future when all humanity is divided in two - the
Insiders and the Outsiders. The Insiders are privileged, with their
every need catered to by somatic drugs, three-dimensional holovision
and a prolonged life. Uncumber lives in this luxurious world and is
told that she must never go out into the dust and disease of the real
world. Uncumber, however, is haunted by a restless and inquisitive
spirit. When she falls in love with an Outsider, she decides to go
exploring ... 'An ingenious fable ... at times poetically
imaginative.' Sunday Times
Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a
journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards
the End of the Morning, The Trick of It and A Landing on the Sun.
Headlong (1999) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, while his most
recent novel, Spies, won the Whitbread Novel Award. His fifteen plays
range from Noises Off to Copenhagen, and most recently Democracy. He is
married to the biographer and critic Claire Tomalin.
