Even if you’re sick of teenage dystopias, this paranoid mind-wiping novel will thrill you
There is something vertiginous about a great British dystopia . Perhaps it ’s just that special layer of distance between Americans and Brits . Perhaps it ’s just being culturally closer to germinal work like George Orwell ’s 1984 or , more late , Alan Moore ’s 5 for Vendetta . Or perhaps it has something to do with insularity , with the notion that the characters really have nowhere to go , whereas in American dystopias , character have a whole continent at their disposition as long as they have a honorable pair of boot ....