The Easier Ones

By Simon Imuwika

Emma Cranford comes home intending to end her marriage. Instead, she finds another woman living in her house, wearing her clothes and answering to her name.

Her husband does not recognise her. Her key no longer works. Her phone rejects her passcode, her bank cannot verify her identity, and the police treat her as a distressed stranger. Every record points to the same impossible conclusion: the other woman is Emma Cranford, and Emma is no one.

Elsewhere in London, a government minister uncovers a programme hidden inside the language of public safety, while a teenage boy watches his difficult, brilliant sister become calmer, more cooperative-and less recognisably herself.

As their stories converge, they discover a system designed not merely to remove inconvenient people, but to replace them with versions the world finds easier to keep.

The Easier Ones is a tense, unsettling speculative thriller about identity, institutional power and what survives when society decides that a more manageable version of you would be better.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1919543171
• ISBN13: 9781919543178
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Alder & Stone House
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.0"