For fourteen years, Adrian Quinn has listened.
Every week, millions tune in to tell him what isn't working: hospitals, councils, planning systems, benefits offices, complaints procedures.
Then one caller asks a question nobody can answer:
What if the problem isn't any individual institution?
What if the problem is how institutions hear?
As a strange object approaches through the solar system and a country drifts toward another election, Adrian begins building something that has never existed before - a mechanism designed to listen.
The question is whether anyone with power wants to hear what it says.
It's Only Me is a literary novel about democracy, institutions, uncertainty, and the people who keep trying to make things work.