Any Human Power

How do you help the people you love create a future you’re proud to leave behind? 

From acclaimed author Manda Scott comes a visionary thriller of a lifetime.

How do you help the people you love create a future you’re proud to leave behind?

From acclaimed author Manda Scott comes a visionary thriller of a lifetime. As Lan lies dying, she makes a promise that binds her long into the Beyond. A decade later her teenage granddaughter is caught up in an international storm of outrage that unleashes the rage of a whole, failed generation. For one shining fragment of time, the world is with her. But then the backlash begins, and soon she and her family are besieged by the press, facing the all-powerful wrath of the old establishment whose only understanding is power-over, not power-with.

Watching over the growing chaos is Lan, who taught them all to think independently, approach power sceptically and dream with clear intent.  She knows that more than one generation’s hopes are on the line.

Weaving together myth, technology and radical compassion, this visionary novel breaks apart all we know of life, death and the routes to hope, asking us all to dream deeply and act boldly.

Praise for Manda Scott’s A Treachery of Spies:

‘This book opened up and swallowed me whole – the characters, the plot, the writing, everything. It’s the most exciting, involving thriller I’ve read in an age, and I can’t recommend it highly enough.’

Mick Herron

 

‘As commanding as ever.’

Guardian

 

‘Superb . . . a blend of historical imagination and storytelling verve reminiscent of Robert Harris.’

The Sunday Times

 

‘This is a rich vein for fiction, and Scott does it more than justice, with this beautifully imagined, beautifully written, smart, sophisticated – but fiercely suspenseful – thriller.’

Lee Child