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    THE Reading room

    Sep 09, 2020 3 minutes
    EDITED by JULIET RIEDEN

    Sci-fi thriller

    The Mother Fault

    by Kate Mildenhall, Simon & Schuster

    There’s a grizzly scene in when Heidi, the friend of protagonist Mim, is trying to surgically remove tracing implants from the arms of her friend and two children. It involves anaesthetic, a scalpel and digging around in flesh and veins for the tiny “silver sliver” that keeps our now on-the-run family on the radar of ‘The Department’. It’s a messy task, and after mopping blood and gluing together wounds, Heidi secretes the chips in some rats to put Big Brother off the scent. These chips are both

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