theconorhilton's review
3.0
Fascinating. Again, structured in a way to give characters opportunities to just talk with each other, revealing the changes in society that have taken place. A shift in time has occurred here too, with changes in what places are called, but the geography being more or less the same (certainly something to think about the ways that Ireland is characterized vs England). A woman-centered story that talks about some gender questions a bit more straightforwardly than some of the other utopian texts. I would have loved to see the story really pick up where it draws to a close—our central narrator is forced to reckon with her inability to return home, as the England of the past is impossible to reach—how would she fit into this new ‘utopia’? What questions would be raised by her actual life there? But alas, instead she goes to take some drugs and wakes up back in the past/her present, as if waking from a dream.
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