Keir Burrows

Oxford PhD student Ana finds herself unable to build new memories, following an experiment to generate and travel through a wormhole. The story follows her increasingly desperate efforts to understand what happened, and to find out who—or what—is behind the rising horror in her life.

Loss and understanding in the hours before the bombs fall as nuclear war breaks out.

Nasreen is a cleaner, with dreams of movie stardom. Lacking the contacts to realize her ambition, she creates extravagant characters to play - zombie hunters, punk clubbers, high-powered corporate financiers - and imagines film crews are on every street corner and real people are just extras, and that all of life is just a film set. So equipped, she heads off on an adventure, with the most extraordinary results.