Deborah Tomkins writes long and short fiction. Her prize-winning flash fiction and otherwork has been published in print and online. She has recently been announced as thejoint winner of the Virginia Prize for Fiction, and her winning novel willbe published by Aurora Metro. She lives in Bristol with her family.

Ali Smith says:“What planet are we on? Can we leave? Does it meanwe can never go home again if we do? What does aphrase like worlds apart really mean? Deep-forged,witty and resonant, this dimensionally stunning novelladeals with dystopia and hope in a way that revealsthem as profoundly related. A work of real energy andnarrative grip, brilliantly earthy and airy at once, itblasts open a reader’s past/future consciousness andtaps into literary antecedents as disparate as Hardyand Atwood. Funny, terrifying, humane, this is athrilling journey in a story the size of a planet – no, thesize of several, all of them altogether strange anduncannily familiar.”