Awake in the Floating City

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For fans of Station Eleven, Birnam Wood and Migrations, an astonishingly beautiful literary dystopia about care and compassion in times of devastation.

In a future San Francisco transformed by years of rain, Bo, a 40-year-old lapsed artist, is grieving the community she's lost to catastrophic flooding. Her friends and family have disappeared or fled, the streets are rivers, and the buildings are falling apart.

Yet on the day of her planned departure, Bo finds a note slipped under her door: I need help, it reads. Three days a week, afternoons. Can pay in cash.

Unable to bring herself to board the ship that could save her life, Bo instead chooses to answer the note, which turns out to have been written by her neighbour Mia, a 130-year-old "supercentenarian" long abandoned by her own family.

What follows is the story of an extraordinary relationship between the two women - bound by circumstance and finding human connection in the most difficult of situations.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781398548862
Published: May 2025

Number of pages: 336
Width: 153 mm
Height: 234 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd