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'NORTH IS AN ORIGINAL AND EVEN DAZZLING WRITER' Kirkus From the award-winning, bestselling Claire North comes a brand new stand-alone novella - a clever and unnervingly plausible dystopian tale set five minutes into the future . . . Harmony is tired. Tired of working so hard, tired of the way she looks, tired of being average. But all that changes when she decides to splash out and upgrade her nanos. And why not? Everyone's doing it now. With a simple in-app purchase, you can update the tech in your bloodstream to transform yourself - get enhanced brain power, the perfect body or a dazzling smile. Suddenly, everything starts going right for Harmony. She's finally becoming the person she always wanted to be. But when she ends up running too many upgrades on her body all at once, the effects will be more catastrophic than she could have imagined. With Sweet Harmony, Claire North proves yet again that she is one of the most innovative and original voices in modern fiction. Praise for Sweet Harmony: 'Terrifying, plausible, and intelligent. An outstanding novella' Fantasy Book Critic 'Sweet Harmony doesn't just deliver a scary and convincing near future but also glorious, on-point writing . . . Strongly recommended' Blue Book Balloon 'An unnerving, sharply observed and altogether too plausible novella' Civilian Reader 'Brilliant' The Digital Fix Also by Claire North: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Touch The Sudden Appearance of Hope The End of the Day 84K The Gameshouse The Pursuit of William Abbey
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This is definitely the novella North wrote for the Black Mirror anthology that never happened, right? Because it out-Black Mirrors the actual show. This is easily the bleakest book I've read by North. You can feel the anger seeping off the page and in your bones (I had to put it down a few times to calm down, and that's as someone who lacks much of the personal experience this book will resonate with).
It's a brutal examination of abusive relationships, society's standards of beauty, the commercialization of medicine, the predatory nature of credit companies, and so much more.
Also there's a haggis orgy.