![]() ![]() The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North. ![]() "It's a question with what you do with surveillance, it's a question of what you do with the knowledge you gather on people." "It's a question of what you do with that data," she says when asked if this Big Brother-ish monitoring is something to fear. But the complex algorithms for an app like Perfection are not such a big step away. Elite membership is a Faustian bargain.īoth The Sudden Appearance of Hope and North's breakthrough bestseller about identity and resurrection, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, soon to be made into a film, fall in the genre of science fiction. Perfection burrows into subscribers' bank accounts and purchasing records, monitors kilojoule intake and offers bonus points, discounts from in-app suppliers and treatments to transform the overweight and under-confident into thinner, more charismatic selves. Credit: Siobhan WattsĪrden takes to crime to survive and be remembered, and when she steals a famous diamond from a Saudi princess she makes an enemy of the creators of a sinister life-coaching app. ![]() Claire North, author of The Sudden Appearance of Hope, published her first book when she was 14. ![]()
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