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The story explores the unconventional upbringing of Leo, who is handed over to his grandmother, Clare, by his mother, Madam Sara Bresson, a successful Spiritualist medium. With her focus on her career and lack of maternal instincts, Leo's mother prioritizes her life over parenting, leaving him in the care of a widowed grandmother. This setup sets the stage for a unique family dynamic and the challenges Leo faces growing up in a world where he is caught between his mother's ambitions and his grandmother's nurturing.

Now on the acclaimed SF Masterworks list, D.G. Compton's extraordinary novel is a forgotten classic of British SF that exposed the pitfalls of voyeuristic entertainment decades before the likes of THE TRUMAN SHOW.

The Attrition. It was a bloodless, bureaucratic word, chosen to hide the appalling reality of the plague that had changed the face of civilisation. Now Dr Harriet Ryder-Kahn, born four years into the Attrition, thinks she may have an answer. But in a world convulsed by trauma she finds there are those who do not want a solution. And they are prepared to go as far as it takes to silence her . . .