Marie Antoinette meets Gossip Girl in this supermodern novel of scandal and slander, from the two-time Granta Best Young British Novelist
A madcap story of female friendship, language and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very moment - a historical novel like no other
It's the eighteenth century, and Celine is in trouble. Her husband is mostly absent, her parents are elsewhere. And a man, somewhere, is telling stories about her - about her affairs, her sexuality, her mad orgies and addictions. The stories aren't true, but everyone loves them, spreading them like a terrible plague. Celine watches as her name becomes a symbol for everything rotten and wrong and naughty in the world.
This is a world of decadence and saturation, of lavish parties and private salons, of tulle and satin and sex and violence. This is a world ruled by men who are high on colonial genocide, natural destruction, crimes against women and, above all, language. To survive it, Celine and her friends must band together in search of justice, truth and beauty.
Wildly inventive, funny and blindingly bright, The Future Future follows one woman on a quest to clear her name and change the world.
