A Glass Rope

Adam Mahfouz is mugged and his life starts to fall apart.

He is a tutor on the Cull, a global educational programme aimed at reducing social inequality and ethnic tension in the globalised economy of the 2060s. He was brought up in a poor, ethnically mixed background and is proud of his status as a 'scholarship boy' and what he's achieved in his working life. His mugger is a former pupil, Leila, who gradually invades his life. Adam begins to record his past obsessively. He grows fascinated ...