The question is whether the execution of the book lives up to the promise.Īnna is nearly 15 years old. She conjures a world in the mid 22nd century where people have discovered the secret of longevity and children are outlawed.
Gemma Malley's novel has a basic concept that satisfies these criteria. This demands a finely balanced combination of rational and imaginative projection.
But the future-world also needs to convince as somewhere that really could evolve, allowing the reader to relish the prophetic possibilities of the work.
It has to reflect the here and now, as Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four reflected the austere postwar world of 1948. Any novel set in the future needs to work in two distinct ways to be truly successful.
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