Absynthe

Bellecourt's sci-fi debut is complex, ambitious, and sweeping in scope, raising evergreen questions of truth and power with dizzying verve.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 464 pages
Publication date: 13 October 2022
Publisher: Head of Zeus

CHICAGO, 1928. The Great War has been over for years, and a brave new world has been forged. With it, Liam's world has transformed as well. He grew up poor, but now works for one of the richest families in Chicago, reaping the benefits of his friendship with the family's son and heir. Now he's at Club Artemis: a palace of art-deco delights and debauchery, filled to bursting with the rich and beautiful. And tonight, they're all drinking one thing: Absynthe. The green liquor rumored to cause hallucinations, madness – even death. While gilded youths sip the viridescent liquid, their seemingly perfect world is crumbling. Their absynthe is no mere folly: some it kills, others it transforms. But in Liam, something different has taken place: he can see the world without its illusion. And it isn't the perfect world the government wants people to believe... Bellecourt's sci-fi debut is complex, ambitious, and sweeping in scope. Publishers Weekly called it "a complex feat of world-building that raises evergreen questions of truth and power with dizzying verve." The Daily Mail praised it as "a complex feat of world-building that raises evergreen questions of truth and power with dizzying verve."

Weight: 324g
Dimension: 198 x 128 x 35 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781801101943