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“But how can I teach something I’ve been looking for my whole life?” Yotam wonders.Ĭold People is a vastly ambitious novel, tackling the weightiest questions of our time in a form that rarely loses the tension of a thriller, despite the complexity of its subject matter.Ĭold People by Tom Rob Smith is published by Simon & Schuster (£16.99). The most successful of these humanoid creatures is ready to be “integrated” into the community, but the dilemma remains: will this superior species, created by humans, save or destroy us? The answer, according to Yotam, the scientist who has “raised” the creature from birth, will depend on its capacity to love. The “exodus” to Antarctica occurs in the summer of 2023, and the narrative is divided between the events of that year, chronicling the colonisation of a new society and seen largely through the eyes of a young couple, Liza and Atto, and a crisis point that occurs 20 years later, at the culmination of the project to genetically engineer a new generation of “ice-adapted” people bred to thrive in the harshest conditions. The Farm The international bestseller from the author of phenomenal Child 44 trilogy The Farm If you refuse to believe me, I will no longer consider you. After these studies, he worked as a scriptwriter. Until the moment he receives a frantic call from his father, Daniel believed his parents were headed into a peaceful, well-deserved retirement in rural Sweden. For those who can't wait here's an exciting preview. After graduating from Cambridge University in 2001, he completed his studies in Italy, studying creative writing for a year. Smiths startlingly original new novel is told from the perspective of Daniel, a Londoner whose parents, Chris and Tilde, have retired to a farm in the south of. Tom Rob Smith's hotly anticipated psychological thriller The Farm is nearly in your hands.

The son of a Swedish mother and an English father, Smith was raised in London where he lives today. Will this superior species, created by humans, save or destroy us? Tom Rob Smith (born 1979) is an English writer.

The Farm by Tom Rob Smith