Published in 2019
272 pages
Luiza Sauma was born in Rio de Janeiro and grew up in London. She is the author of two novels, Flesh and Bone and Water and Everything You Ever Wanted. The latter was shortlisted for the Encore Award and recommended by Florence Welch’s book club, Between Two Books. Luiza was a journalist at the Independent on Sunday for several years and has written for the Guardian, the Telegraph, the i, Five Dials and others. She has an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths, where she won the Pat Kavanagh Award.
What is this book about?
You wake up. You go to work. You don’t go outside for twelve hours at a time. You have strategy meetings about how to use hashtags. After work you order expensive drink after expensive drink until you’re so blackout drunk you can’t remember the circumstances which have led you to waking up in bed with your colleague. The next day you stay in bed until the afternoon, scrolling through your social media feeds and wondering why everyone else seems to be achieving so much.
Sometimes you don’t get out of bed at all.
Then you hear about Life on Nyx, a programme that allows 100 lucky winners the chance to escape it all, move to another planet and establish a new way of life. One with meaning and purpose. One without Instagram and online dating. There’s one caveat: if you go, you can never come back.
But you aren’t worried about that.
After all, what on Earth could there possibly be to miss?
