The Transition

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An early thirties couple are forced to move in with an older couple in this dark and very funny thought experiment

What do you do with a generation who've had everything, but still can't grow up

Welcome to The Transition.

While taking part in The Transition you and your partner will spend six months living under the supervision of your mentors, two successful adults of a slightly older generation. Freed from your financial responsibilities, you will be coached through the key areas of the scheme Employment, Nutrition, Responsibility, Relationship, Finances and Self-Respect until you are ready to be reintegrated into adult society.

At the end of your six months who knows what discoveries you'll have made about yourself The friends' you no longer need. The talents you'll have found time to nurture. The business you might have kick-started.

Who knows where you'll be

Reviews

The sort of book that cuts you off from your family and has you walking blindly through seven lanes of traffic with your face pressed obliviously to the page The Times

Richly enjoyable . . . what really makes this novel stand out is not the Black Mirror-style black comedy but the tenderly devastating portrait of mental illness. The dystopia turns out to be a love story after all Guardian

'To read Luke Kennard is to experience the gleeful rush that comes with encountering a writer who has an uncanny ability to scoop the contents of your head directly onto the page Shortlist

Uncomfortably familiar . . . gripping Financial Times

That a dark technological dystopia should emanate from the suburban home of a charming and progressive middle-aged couple who love kite boarding and balanced political discourse at breakfast now seems inevitable. Luke Kennards brilliant first novel offers a fresh, funny and gripping vision of the near-future that rings frighteningly true Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine

'Disquieting and witty but with such tenderness at its core that it's often heart-stopping. Gorgeous stuff. I devoured it' Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies

Extremely smart and extremely funny, Luke Kennard's first novel is a brilliant dismantling of our corporatized century. It also features one of the most endearingly hapless heroes since Lucky Jim. In a world where everything real has been outsourced if it can't be demolished, a book like The Transition is not just a ray of light it's utterly vital Paul Murray, author of Skippy Dies

Essential reading for generation rent. Funny, necessary and all too close to the bone Jenn Ashworth, author of The Friday Gospels

Completely gripping a unique idea executed with verve, confidence and razor sharp wit Isy Suttie

Black Mirror with a lighter touch. A day-after-tomorrow novel that defines a generation Matthew De Abaitua, author of The Red Men

Author Bio

Luke Kennard is the author of five collections of poetry. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2005 and wasshortlisted for the Forward Prize for BestCollection in 2007. He lectures at theUniversity of Birmingham. In 2014 hewas selected by the Poetry Book Societyas one of the Next Generation Poets. Hislatest poetry book, Cain, was publishedby Penned in the Margins in June 2016.The Transition is his first novel.