David Nicholls

"The highly anticipated new novel from David Nicholls, author of the mega-bestselling fiction sensation One Day, which follows one man's efforts to salvage his marriage--and repair his troubled relationship with his teenaged son--during the course of a trip around Europe"--

This was written 10 years ago and is already predominantly true😭😭

Rose Donovan

‘So-called ‘secure’ professions seem less and less so; first it was the miners and the ship- and steel-workers, soon it’ll be the bank clerks, librarians, teachers, the shop owners, the supermarket check-out staff. The scientists might survive if it’s the right type of science, but where do all the taxi-drivers in the world go when the taxis drive themselves?….’

‘Throw in terrorism, the seemingly insoluble problem of religious fundamentalism, the rise of the extreme right-wing, under employed youth and the under-pensioned elderly, fragile and corrupt banking systems; the inadequacy of the heath care systems to cope with the vast numbers of the sick and old, the environmental repercussions of the unprecedented factory-farming, the battle for finite resources of food, water, gas and oil…’

‘The statistical probability of a global pandemic and there really is no reason why anyone should sleep soundly ever again.’

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