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Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award Longlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award''Unputdownable ¿ An extraordinary book ¿ as insightful and as premonitory as Orwell¿s 1984¿ Litro''With echoes of Emily St John Mandel and Megan Hunter'' Elizabeth Macneal¿Stylish and thoughtful ¿ The eerie claustrophobia of the setting will stay with the reader for a long while.'' Literary Review___________________________________________________Not all that is hidden is lost¿For twelve years Aina and Whitney have been in exile on an island for a crime they committed together, tethered to a croft by pills they take for survival every eight hours. They¿ve kept busy - Aina with her garden, her jigsaw, her music; Whitney with his sculptures and maps - but something is not right.Shipwrecks have begun washing up, supply drops have stopped and on the day their punishment is meant to end,