![]() It is into this overheated and toxic world that Booth plunges her protagonist, heavily pregnant Alice, along with her partner Pete, allowing the reader to experience firsthand Alice’s worst fears come true.Īlways a worrier, Alice’s work on the emergency applications within the Department of Housing ensures that her fear of the skin sealing disease – ‘cutis’ – only increases. ![]() – are being sealed over, causing a horrific death to those unfortunate enough to not receive instant medical attention. The disease is an overgrowth of skin whereby orifices – mouths, ears, eyes, anuses etc. Yes, it is literary fiction, but it is also imaginatively speculative – the main premise being that a new global disease is spreading through an already environmentally stressed Earth, attacking humans and other animal species. Put firmly in the literary fiction camp it most likely evaded the eyes of readers who would’ve been keen to savour this speculative – and dystopian – book, which is a shame really, as it deserves a wide audience. ![]() For some reason, Dead Ink, Sealed’s publisher, billed Naomi Booth’s debut novel an ‘eco horror’ on social media. ![]()
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