This book was not only the perfect distraction – I literally couldn’t stop reading it, but it turned out that it was pretty fitting too for my hungover feeling right then. After all, what makes a strange fissure looming overhead inherently more concerning than, say, Dublin’s impenetrable housing market – or Sophie’s “better”, “thinner” twin sister Hannah moving back into the family home?

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Every other part of the world is either already awake, or hasn’t yet gone to sleep, and I’m able to read endless content.At some point along the way, the way we receive information became more important than the information itself; it became the information. And she finds herself just waiting for someone on the internet to tell her something rather than adding yet another phone-camera picture of the crack to Instagram. We meet Sophie, Prasifka's ultra-relatable protagonist, at a precarious time in her life: leaving university.

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All of these people are saying more or less the same thing, that it's okay to panic and equally okay to try and pretend things are normal, depending on what works for individual people, but they're doing a good job of acting like they're on different sides.Things are going to change now, and change for the better, don’t worry,’ Grace says to me, but I find it hard to believe her. I’ve been waiting for a fictional story that reflects the all-consuming influence that the Internet has on my life. Alex Henderson of AllMusic noted that Martin wanted a different production style for her second album. It is important to note that the majority of the themes explored in this book deal with sensitive subject matters.

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They’re playing a drinking game of quick-fire questions, where the only way to avoid answering is to respond with a question directed at someone else. Finn grabs a few crisps from the bowl and smiles at me graciously, then goes back to talking to the others. She didn’t know I had a book until after I’d signed with my agent and she didn’t read it until after the book deal.The book’s cover image is an illustration of the fractured face of an everywoman – referencing the crack in the sky and the splintering of the self across various media. The mental anguish that seeing polished, curated social media feeds can cause and of course how easily the internet can become a rumour mill. Part of me wants to go with them; it would be nice to abandon my past life for a state of constant present.