I finished this with a smile, even though it
is a tale of dystopia - a city analyst who runs away from his job when
he realises that a computer programme he invented is definitely showing
him what he thought it would, but with disastrous results. The disaster
could be an end-of-the-world scenario, and when he finds himself being
given the kiss of life on a beach in Cornwall it may already have
happened. And if it hasn't, it is going to. He isn't dead, he doesn't
know why, but there must be a purpose here somewhere. Perhaps his
purpose is to save the villagers from starvation? infection? what? There
are some dark moments in this book, but it isn't a dark tale. It is a
heartwarming one, of how, if we are lucky, friends and neighbours just
may help out when something is obviously going badly wrong. A clever and rather lighthearted telling of what might be. And of course .. not forgetting the whale. PS. Do please read the author's postscripts when you have finished... there are a few eye-openers there.
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