Your phone. Or the person you love.

You have to give up one of them. Forever.

Which do you choose?Impossible People is a gripping, wholly original novel by Anna Lyndsey, author of the acclaimed memoir Girl in the Dark (Bloomsbury 2015). It mixes a modern love story like no other with the tension, twists and betrayals of a scientific thriller to explore the dark side of our obsession with technology.

When Tom, a young academic, helps a mysterious hooded girl find her way on campus, he is drawn into the strange parallel world of “reactors” – people who have become allergic to modern life. But are the terrifying symptoms they experience real? A controversial experiment claims to find out.

Soon Tom must fight for his job, his home and his future as his own world spirals out of control, and he confronts massively powerful opponents as he struggles to uncover the truth. Anna Lyndsey’s memoir Girl in the Dark (Bloomsbury 2015) was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and a Sunday Times Book of the Year.

Her first novel is inspired by the contested science around electrosensitivity (also known as electromagnetic hypersensitivity) and its devastating human consequences – both for those who develop it, and for the people who love them. Dave Eggers' The Circle meets The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg to create a technological dystopia with a difference – it's actually happening now….

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