I've been reminded of this by current events...
A book I read in the early 1990s set in Britain in the near future, which has become a police state of sorts. It opens with the main character hearing school friends joking about grannies being dumped at the side of the motorway, and later in the book her parents, who've been looking after her grandfather who has dementia, abandon him somewhere as they can't cope and he's put into a state run care home.
She finds him and starts volunteering there, and there's a scene where she sees he's wearing the cardigan she gave him but its covered in food stains. Later she argues with her mother who says that their original plan was to open a tea shop in the country, but after the BSE crisis it wasn't possible and they ended up stuck in the city.
The other part of the plot is that she has left school and started a 'civil service' type job where she's filing lots of index cards with people's names on, and there's a scene where she asks her boss about it and he says something about her not looking at the cards, just filing them. She may have got involved with an underground group who want her to pass information on to them, but I'm not sure if I'm mixing up two books here.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
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EllieQ · 30/01/2017 13:13
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