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My review -
This
story takes a simultaneously humorous and sobering look at a British economy
which crashes and is bailed out by a consortium of Eastern countries. Within a
very short time, Britain becomes a police state, people work for food – canned
‘chicken’ stew from China – and dissenters are shipped to labour camps on the
Isle of Wight. Our story follows a group of these people, who are forced to
pedal exercise bikes to produce electricity, or work fields by hand to produce
crops they can’t afford to eat.
The
story is humorously told but the situation it portrays is bleak. We wouldn’t
put up with it, would we? It made me wonder how far things would have to go,
where the tipping point would be, before we found ourselves in this kind of
mess. I enjoyed the characters, all quite believable, and their relationships
with one another. I also liked the ending. Can a worm turn? Read this and find
out!
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