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As heard on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row: the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish Britain, THEY are coming closer…
‘A creepily prescient tale … Insidiously horrifying!’ Margaret Atwood
‘The signature of an enchantress.’ Edna O’Brien
‘A masterpiece of creeping dread.’ Emily St. John Mandel
This is Britain: but not as we know it. THEY are coming closer . . .
THEY begin with a dead dog, shadowy footsteps, confiscated books. Soon the National Gallery is purged; eerie towers survey the coast; savage mobs stalk the countryside destroying artworks – and those who resist.
THEY capture dissidents – writers, painters, musicians, even the unmarried and childless – in military sweeps, ‘curing’ these subversives of individual identity. Survivors gather together as cultural refugees, preserving their crafts, creating, loving and remembering. But THEY make it easier to forget …
Lost for over forty years, Kay Dick’s They (1977) is a rediscovered dystopian masterpiece of art under attack: a cry from the soul against censorship, a radical celebration of non-conformity – and a warning.
Kay Dick was a novelist, writer and editor. Born in London in 1915, she worked at Foyles bookshop before becoming the first female director of an English publishing house aged 26, editing authors such as George Orwell. She later reviewed for the New Statesman, Times, Spectator and Punch, as well as editing The Windmill under a pseudonym. Dick wrote five…
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They is Kay Dick’s rediscovered radical dystopian masterpiece of art under attack.
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