The Memory Police Scarlett Thomas The police focus their attention

The police focus their attention on Edvard Christensson

She owns her own apartment

and her marriage only lasted 608 days

But in 1921 he is beleaguered by an unhappy marriage

Kya steps cautiously into a world she’s never known—until everything threatens to unravel

The Memory Police Scarlett Thomas The police focus their attentionA haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young