![]() ![]() Only boys are entitled to an education, girls only learn cooking, sewing, household management and, strangely, basic mathematics. On being elected his first act is to ban all 70 million women from the workforce and enforce them to return to home duties, gardening, cooking and raising children. Only men can hold any job, only men can vote, women and girls can no longer hold passports, own bank accounts and all schools become gender based. The story is set in the US and follows the rise of an ultra-conservative, despot president and his administration whose sole aim is to make America “great again”. He and his cabinet of 11 men aim to take their country back to the 1950s, when men were men and women knew their places. ![]() On sale from August 29, VOX by Christina Dalcher is set in a fictionalised world that bears a great resemblance to some of America’s current realities. Authoritarian systems work to quash opposition and dissent, even conversation and diverse perspectives, leaving people with no way to speak up or speak out. In totalitarian societies, they actually don’t have one. There is an old saying that truth is stranger than fiction, and this book certainly mirrors that. Review Vox by Christina Dalcher In oppressive societies, citizens feel like they have no voice. VOXis, without doubt, the most chilling, frightening and believable book that I have ever read! ![]()
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