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face is nothing without its history. Gavin and Emma live in
Manhattan. She's a musician. He works in Artificial Intelligence.
He's good at his job. Scarily good. He's researching human features
to make more realistic mask-bots - non-human 'carers' for elderly
people. When his enquiry turns personal he's forced to ask whether
his own life is an artificial mask. Delving into family stories and
his roots in the Highlands of Scotland, he embarks on a quest to
discover his own true face, 'uniquely sprung from all the faces
that had been'. He returns to England to look after his Grampa.
Travels. Reads old documents. Visits ruins. Borrows, plagiarises
and invents. But when Emma tells him his proper work is to make a
story out of glass and steel, not memory and straw, which path will
he choose? What's the best story he can give her? A novel about the
struggle for freedom and personal identity; what it means to be
human. It fuses the glass and steel of our increasingly controlled
algorithmic world with the memory and straw of our forebears' world
controlled by traditions and taboos, the seasons and the elements.
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