A monumental speculative fiction story of love, loyalty, politics, and conscience, set in parallel Londons.

"Newland...imagines a world where colonialism never happened at all...It's speculative fiction that genuinely made me speculate."
--Wired

"A dystopian multiverse imagined at thrilling scale...Extraordinary...The excitement lies largely in its ideas about power and personal responsibility."
--Times Literary Supplement

"Newland has produced a text that piques and provokes, providing a guidebook to worlds both uncomfortably familiar and radically new."
--Strange Horizons

"An immersive speculative novel set in a dystopian city that’s facing an uprising."
--Foreword Reviews, a Book of the Day selection