PopCo
Scarlett Thomas
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The mindmelting classic of puzzles, maths and globalisation from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y
Alice Butler has been receiving some odd messages - all anonymous, all written in code. Are they from someone at PopCo, the profit-hungry corporation she works for? Or from Alice’s long lost father? Or has someone else been on her trail?
The solution, she is sure, will involve the code-breaking skills she learned from her grandparents and the key she’s been wearing round her neck since she was ten.
PopCo is a grown-up adventure of family secrets, puzzles, big business and the power of numbers.
“Ambitious, thought-provoking fun.”
sunday Times
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“This book might just change your life.”
Suzi Feay
independent On Sunday
“A wonderfully fresh and ambitious novel.”
Jonathan Coe
evening Standard
“An outright amazement.”
scotland On Sunday
“An anticorporate fable with enough code-breaking tips, puzzles and graphs, charts, postscripts and appendixes to satisfy Lewis Carroll.”
new York Times
Scarlett Thomas
Scarlett Thomas was born in London in 1972. Her other novels include Bright Young Things, Going Out and The End of Mr.Y, which was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent.
