Why a Booktrail?
Destination: Isle of Wight Departure Time: The near future
A Frankenstein for the twenty-first century.
The Machine
What you need to know before your trail
Beth lives alone on a desolate housing estate on the Isle of Wight near the sea She came here to rebuild her life as ever since her husband returned from the war, he’s been troubled with his thoughts and memories and she can’t seem to help him as she would like. He did have a machine that the government took away that used to record memories and preserve the life that the war victims had before – a sort of salvation if you will. but now the government have taken this box back as they were deemed too controversial and potentially unsafe.
However Beth has a box, a black box which she has kept and which she hopes she now can use to fix her husband piece by piece
Travel Guide
An atmosphere similar to that of Frankenstein comes to the small island of the Isle of Wight. Beth lives in a small and desolate village by the sea but this is fine for her as all she needs is a quiet place to rebuild her life and that of her husband. The real setting is inside his head – Frankenstein series of experiments to bring him back to her and take his nightmares away.
The Isle of Wight comes across as dark, desolate and very very claustrophobic – the house where Beth lives with her husband is not a nice place to be. Eerie and chilling. The whirring of that machine in the background….
Isolation is all around – Beth isolates herself and becomes even more isolated by staying and keeping the machine a secret. Her husband lies alone with only the machine for company. She is lonely so that’s why she does what she does. Moods and loneliness pervade each and every page.
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