Zero K 9780624046103 twenty years of secrets and

twenty years of secrets and a man who can't remember lie at the heart of Lisa Jewell's brilliant new novel

and the power of stories to help us find meaning in a confusing world - a world that can sometimes threaten to overwhelm us

but is just a little bit intriguing

Torchbearers

As shifting forces of power send warning ripples across Europe

Zero K 9780624046103 twenty years of secrets andJeffrey Lockhart has been summoned to The Convergence: a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely, cryogenically controlled. He is there to say goodbye to his stepmother, Artis, who has chosen to surrender her dying body; preserving it until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return her to a life of transcendent promise. And his healthy father, Ross, might join her.