"Unprecedented in the context of Ben's earlier work." Orphans gets Pete Lit'd. And likes it. A lot.

Quite a lot, and so big thanks to the Pete Lit for that. And drinks, many, on us, when next we meet. Excerpt? Cool.

"In this dystopia, Ben's usual preoccupations are dramatically amped up, transformed from a state of simple existential angst to the very survival of his protagonist. The stakes here are so much higher than his realist fiction, and the outcome much more emphatic."