Second Time Lucky
- ISBN-10
- 1973325861
- ISBN-13
- 9781973325864
- Series
- Second Time Lucky
- Pages
- 185
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-11-18
- Author
- Geoff Hart
Description
The year is 2034 and there have been many changes in the way people live. The ozone layer has finally disappeared altogether and, although a cure has been found for skin cancer, most of the population are slowly going blind. Following the village closure scheme virtually nobody lives in the countryside. Instead most people live clustered around the supermarket that now caters for absolutely all of their needs. The population, brought low by impending blindness, has become totally passive and wholly reliant on the Echo Maxi-Mart chain of stores.An incredible discovery is made and an unlikely hero emerges. Winston Smith a middle aged optician yearns for the past. Aided by an eccentric Swiss toy maker and a powerful politician with old fashioned values, Winston takes on the established order. The book has charm and humour with an array of rich characters each of which in their different way grapples to make sense of the barren world they all inhabit.
