My Only Boy (2026)

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The sensational new novel from the highly-acclaimed author of Dreamland It is Elle's job to predict the future. But even she can't predict this. When a desperate worker throws himself off a balcony, it is Elle who has handle the fallout. Comms director for a tech start-up firm called Gigr, which finds casual employment for an increasingly wide range of workers and professionals, it is her job to anticipate and plan for every scenario. But lately events have started to spin out of her control. In parliament the political temperature is getting as hot as the weather on the streets outside. If Elle is to ensure her company's smooth path towards a stock market floatation – a floatation that will provide her and her family with the financial security they so desperately need – she must be prepared to bend to the will of the new extremists in government. In Elle's personal life, things are hardly less complicated. On an