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The protagonist is about to tell us the saddest story he has ever heard. It concerns how he and his wife Florence became friends with Captain and Leonora Ashburton, and how what outwardly seemed a happy life became riddle with lies, deception and betrayal. As our confused and saddened narrator attempts to sort out the story in his head, we are lead through a labyrinth of memories, maybe true and maybe false, to an inevitable, catastrophic conclusion.
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Our protagonist’s life has ground to his halt: his wife has divorced him after having an affair, his business is grinding to a halt as the friend with whom he founded it steadily succumbs to alcoholism, and his best friend Rat disappeared years ago – only occasionally sending bizarre, non-sequitur letters containing money or more recently a picture of some sheep.
This picture becomes important, however, because it contains the image of a sheep with the mark of a star – a sheep that is of great interest to the shadowy right-wing organisation that have controlled Japan for years. An organisation that will pay him a great deal of money to find that sheep – or destroy him if he does not.
Spurred on by his new girlfriend and her magical ears, this man with no motivation finds himself on a quest to find a single lost sheep on a mountainside in a country full of mountains. What he finds will make all that seem relatively normal.
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Genetically engineered crops and plagues have wiped out the greater portion of the world’s agriculture, ending the era of great nations and open borders as humanity struggles to survive the latest pestilence. Anderson Lake is a company man trying to discover the secrets of Thailand’s success, one of the few relatively civilised nations remaining. Jaidee is an incorruptible head of the White Shirts, protecting the nation from potentially toxic illegal imports. Hock Seng is a “yellow card”, a once wealthy Chinese refugee from a violent uprising that murdered his family. Their lives will be turned upside-down by of Emiko, a “windup girl”, an android, a sex-slave, and the person who may be about to start a revolution.
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There’s a bloke, he’s pretty antisocial, he think’s he’s pretty clever and he’s going to tell you about it in a way that makes a hundred pages feel like 600. Oh, I’m sorry, am I supposed to summarise the book before I start reviewing. Okay. Let’s see where we end up.
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Serendipity is a holiday camp for wealthy English to discover themselves on an island somewhere in Southern Europe. The locals consider them indecent, immoral and a bane on their community. When Serendipity’s unofficial leader and spiritual guru Adrian makes an enormously poor decision, the consequences include his mysterious disappearance and a seemingly inevitable descent towards violence.
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