In the shadow of Oceania, Julia Worthing has perfected the art of survival. A mechanic in the Ministry of Truth’s Fiction Department, she moves through a world defined by endless war, absolute surveillance, and a leader who is more myth than man. Cynical, charming, and skilled at bending rules, Julia believes in nothing and trusts no one. She knows how to navigate the Party’s demands while quietly breaking its laws, a balance she maintains with practiced ease.
Everything shifts the day she slips a note to Winston Smith. What begins as an impulse becomes a collision with forbidden love, buried truths, and the dangerous machinery of a totalitarian state.
Critically acclaimed novelist Sandra Newman delivers a feminist and haunting reimagining celebrated by People, Esquire, The Guardian, and LitHub.
