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Two Tribes
Two Tribes

Two Tribes

FICTION

304 Pages, 5 x 7.75

Formats: Trade Paper, EPUB

Trade Paper, $15.95 (US $15.95) (CA $20.95)

Publication Date: July 2021

ISBN 9781786499332

Rights: US & CA

Atlantic Books, Ltd. (Jul 2021)
Corvus

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Overview

Mary Roberts, a historian in the 23rd century, recreates the life of her distant ancestor Harry Roberts in 2016, based on the extensive diaries he kept at the time. Harry is an architect, born to a professional middle-class family. All his friends are staunch remainders, up in arms about the outcome of the recent referendum. When his car breaks down outside a small town in Norfolk, he meets Michelle. Michelle is a hairdresser, a woman who could not be more different to him, both in terms of lifestyle and background. Like most people she knows, she voted leave. Drawn to each other both in spite of and because of their differences, the two begin a relationship which will change the course of their lives irrevocably. Writing in a bleaker future, from which the political arguments of the twenty-first century seem very remote, Harry's descendant Mary turns this personal story into a reflection on class, and the way that different groups of human beings construct and adapt stories to help them feel at home in the world.

Reviews

"A disturbing descent into a surreal world, written with a deft hand." - Adrian Tchaikovsky, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2016, on Beneath the World, a Sea


"Beckett is superb at undercutting reader assumptions with a casual line of dialogue or acute psychological observation: the book reads like Conrad's Heart of Darkness reimagined by JG Ballard." --Guardian on Beneath the World, a Sea


"Poetic . . . Beckett renders the terror of the darkness beyond the forests with a riveting deftness that evokes all primordial fears of the unknown. . . . There’s plenty here to intrigue and entrance.” New York Times Book Review on Mother of Eden
 


"A superb entertainment, a happy combination of speculative and literary fiction. And it is not to be missed." —Booklist starred review of Dark Eden
 


"The detailed world-building and strong characters beautifully illustrate the usefulness of myths as a tool for keeping power in the hands of a few." —School LIbrary Journal on Mother of Eden


“Provocative and precarious.” —Foreword Reviews 

Author Biography

Chris Beckett is a former university lecturer and social worker. He is the winner of the Edge Hill Short Fiction Award, 2009, for The Turing Test, the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2013, for Dark Eden and was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Novel of the Year Award for Mother of Eden in 2015 and for Daughter of Eden in 2016.