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Manda Scott

Any Human Power

From the author of the much-loved series Boudica and Rome, and the Sunday Times bestseller A Treachery of Spies, comes the visionary novel of a lifetime.

Sometimes it takes a revolution to change the world.
Sometimes it takes a relationship.


When Lan, anthropologist and grandmother, lies dying, she makes a promise that binds her long into the Beyond. A decade later her teenage granddaughter is caught up in a global storm of online outrage that unleashes the fury of a young, betrayed generation. For one shining fragment of time, the world is with her granddaughter. But then the backlash begins, and soon she and her family's rural home are besieged by the press, facing the wrath of the old establishment.

Watching over the growing chaos is Lan, who taught her family to think independently, approach power sceptically and dream with clear intent. She knows that more than one generation's hopes are on the line. It is only with courage and conviction, grounded in an ancient wisdom, that this digital uprising will survive and grow into what she knows it can be: a human movement, capable of profound change, that can sweep us all to a future that works before it is too late.

But Lan is dead, her powers to influence the living are limited and the challenge her grandchildren face is mythic in scale …
623 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2024
Publication year
2024
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  • izraomer56shared an impression5 months ago
    👍Worth reading

    Ummm!! Iwanna tell you"love your self like no one"🧸💕🫶🏽

Quotes

  • aldridgesheldon0has quoted4 months ago
    and this crow is the very embodiment of patience
  • intissarassmaa84has quoted2 months ago
    Time is what we make of it
  • sanyasarah667has quoted3 months ago
    Just because you die, doesn’t mean you get to be wise.
    – Chris Luttichau
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