BEFORE SHE BEGAN WORK ON HER NEW novel, Manda Scott thought she had “stopped writing”. She was busy with other projects and, more importantly, had a sense of urgency about the state of the world that didn’t square with the convoluted business of getting a book to market.
“It seemed that the publishing cycle took too long,” she says. “Humanity is in a bus heading towards the edge of a cliff – and we might be over the cliff, I thought, before a book was actually out. Or at least
