Can a young woman overcome the tension between her work & home?
Meriel Evans has worked for her father's estate agency
He thinks he’s safe up there. But he’ll never be safe from you.
The Heights is a tall, slender apartment building
Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of economic and social collapse. Living in their car, surviving on tips from Charmaine's job at a dive bar, they're increasingly vulnerable to roving gangs and in a rather
Stan & Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of economic & social collapse. Living in their car, surviving on tips from Charmaine's job at a dive bar, they're increasingly vulnerable to roving gangs & in a rather desperate state. So when they see an advertisement for the Positron Project in the town of Consilience
- a 'social experiment' offering stable jobs & a home of their own
- they sign up immediately. All they have to do in return for this suburban paradise is give up their freedom every second month, swapping their home for a prison cell.
At first, all is well. But slowly, unknown to the other, Stan & Charmaine develop a passionate obsession with their counterparts, the couple that occupy their home when they are in prison. Soon the pressures of conformity, mistrust, guilt & sexual desire take over, & Positron looks less like a prayer answered & more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled.
Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780349007298
• Author: Margaret Atwood
• Publisher: Virago
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 432
• Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3cm