Expect Me Tomorrow
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A petty thief who called himself John Smith was arrested in 1877, for theft through fraudulent behaviour. He was convicted and sent to prison.
In 1852, Adler and Adolf Beck's father died on a glacier, and their lives separated. One became a respected climate scientist; the other a globally renowned opera singer, or so he claimed. They remained in touch, to share details of the mysterious voices only they could hear.
In 2050, Charles Ramsey also has a twin. Greg is a climate journalist. Charles used to be a police profiler, but his redundancy leads to him being sent home with an experimental chip in his head. His brother urges him to explore a little-known aspect of their family history.
All these people are connected, impossibly, inexorably. All their lives will intersect.
And the climate of their world will keep on changing.
Christopher Priest
Christopher Priest is the author of 18 novels, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and World Fantasy Award winner The Prestige, which was adapted into the Oscar-nominated film of the same name, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johannsson and David Bowie.
His prolific career in the half-century since publication of his first novel saw him named among the inaugural Granta Best Young British Novelists, alongside Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Pat Barker and Martin Amis. His journalism and reviews have appeared in The Times, the Guardian, the New Statesman, the TLS, the Washington Post and many more.
In 2017 he was the keynote speaker for the J. G. Ballard & The Sciences Conference at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.
He died in 2024, aged 80 years, leaving behind his partner, the novelist and critic Nina Allen.
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