PopCo

Description

Alice Butler has been receiving some odd messages - all anonymous, all written in code. Are they from someone at PopCo, the profit-hungry corporation she works for? Or from Alice's long lost father? Or has someone else been on her trail? The solution, she is sure, will involve the code-breaking skills she learned from her grandparents and the key she's been wearing round her neck since she was ten. PopCo is a grown-up adventure of family secrets, puzzles, big business and the power of numbers.

Scarlett Thomas was born in London in 1972. Her other novels include Bright Young Things, Going Out, The End of Mr.Y, which was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, Our Tragic Universe and The Seed Collectors. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent.

An anticorporate fable with enough code-breaking tips, puzzles and graphs, charts, postscripts and appendixes to satisfy Lewis Carroll * * New York Times * * This book might just change your life -- Suzi Feay * * Independent on Sunday * * A blueprint for a revolution . . . an outright amazement * * Scotland on Sunday * * Enormous fun * * Independent * * A wonderfully fresh and ambitious novel -- Jonathan Coe * * Evening Standard * * Frankly this novel is a bewitching, dizzying triumph * * Scotsman * * Ambitious, thought-provoking fun * * Sunday Times * *