A bold, addictive and urgent new novel about capitalism, environmental collapse and our near future.

What is going on?really

Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood to see his novel be adapted for the screen, but why does he get the feeling that the film project is a smokescreen for something else? Does Cassidy Carter, the troubled starlet due to play the lead, know something he doesn’t? And what is the truth about WAT-R, the synthetic water everyone drinks in LA?

Sharply funny, alluring and devastating, is an unmissable novel for our present moment.Something New Under the Sun

‘Sun-drenched, sharply observed and swift-moving… strange and new’Guardian

‘Profoundly affecting – somehow both funny and deeply unsettling’ Rumaan Alam, author ofLeave the World Behind

‘Expertly conjures California noir filtered through the ambient and not-so-ambient apocalypse’ Emma Cline, author ofThe Girls

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‘An urgent novel about our very near future, and a deeply addictive pleasure’ Katie Kitamura, author ofIntimacies ‘Magnificent and stunning’ Jeff VanderMeer, author ofHummingbird Salamander ‘An immense achievement. Masterful and merciless’ Olivia Sudjic, author ofAsylum Road