Julia:A SUPERB EXCLUSIVE UK EDITION- SIGNED, LIMITED & NUMBERED. 1ST EDITION/1ST PRINT

Sandra Newman

ISBN 10: 1783789158 / ISBN 13: 9781783789153

Published by Granta Books, 2025

About this Item

An excellent UK first edition/ first print hardback in an unblemished dust-wrapper (fitted with a removable, clear, thin film protector). The book has been signed by the author to the title/limitation page One of 1500 exclusive numbered copies of which this is 698/1500 The book is unread and in very fine/very fine condition. Further photos available on request. Please note all my books are securely wrapped and shipped with care in protective packaging within 2 working days.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Julia:A SUPERB EXCLUSIVE UK EDITION- SIGNED, LIMITED & NUMBERED. 1ST EDITION/1ST PRINT
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783789158
• ISBN 13: 9781783789153
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of IngSoc and the rule of the Party and its leader Big Brother, Julia is a model citizen—cheerfully cynical, believing in nothing and caring not at all about politics. She routinely breaks the rules but also collaborates with the regime whenever necessary. Everyone likes Julia. A diligent member of the Junior Anti-Sex League (though she is secretly promiscuous) she knows how to survive in a world of constant surveillance, Thought Police, Newspeak, Doublethink, child spies and the black markets of the prole neighbourhoods. She's very good at staying alive.

But Julia becomes intrigued by a colleague from the Records Department—a mid-level worker of the Outer Party called Winston Smith—when she sees him locking eyes with a superior from the Inner Party at the Two Minutes Hate. And when one day, finding herself walking toward Winston, she impulsively hands him a note—a potentially suicidal gesture—she comes to realise that she's losing her grip and can no longer safely navigate her world.

Seventy-five years after Orwell finished writing his iconic novel, Sandra Newman has tackled the world of Big Brother in a truly convincing way, offering a dramatically different, feminist narrative that is true to and stands alongside the original. For the millions of readers who have been brought up with Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, here, finally, is a provocative, vital and utterly satisfying companion novel.