Hazards of Time Travel

An ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society<br> <br> 'Unrelentingly disturbing' Observer<br> <br> <br> <br> 'Taps deep into contemporary anxieties over the rise of surveillance, totalitarian governments and invasive technology' Daily Mail<br> <br> <br> <br> 'Oates is still casting some awfully dark magic' Washington Post<br> <br> <br> <br> When a recklessly idealistic girl in a dystopian future society dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled world, she is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America - 'Wainscotia, Wisconsin' - that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town, she is set upon a course of 'rehabilitation' - but she falls in love with a fellow exile and starts to question the constraints of her new existence, with results that are both devastating and liberating.<br> <br> <br> <br> Arresting and visionary, Hazards of Time Travel is an exquisitely wrought love story, a novel of harrowing discovery - and an oblique but powerful response to our current political climate.