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The Sudden Appearance of Hope
by Claire North
This is a beautifully written book about a girl who, at the age of 16, slowly begins to disappear. People begin to forget her, teachers, friends and eventually even her family no longer recognise her and eventually every time she meets someone it is the first time. She becomes a thief out of necessity and boredom, baffling to the police because she is brazen, never tries to hide her identity during a crime, they can’t understand it but nor can they catch her. One day Hope decides to make her life mean something by seeking to destroy the sinister lifestyle app Perfection, setting in motion a violent and destructive chain of events and her dawning realisation that only by acknowledging the consequences of one’s actions and accepting accountability can there be freedom.
Full of fascinating questions about the nature of identity, of how we define ourselves by the impressions we leave on those around us and what is left when you have no past, no future and no consequences, this book is like nothing I’ve read before.
Full of fascinating questions about the nature of identity, of how we define ourselves by the impressions we leave on those around us and what is left when you have no past, no future and no consequences, this book is like nothing I’ve read before.