SuitabookHappiness and self-improvement
Sebastian joins a project claiming to offer an answer to teenage unhappiness and tries to focus genuinely on self-improvement.
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Josh Silver - Author
This is a character-led dystopian thriller in which an apparently helpful happiness project becomes increasingly strange. Its strongest material concerns pressure, identity and the meaning of wellbeing; its ending is abrupt and leaves the story hanging.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a character-led dystopian thriller in which an apparently helpful happiness project becomes increasingly strange. Its strongest material concerns pressure, identity and the meaning of wellbeing; its ending is abrupt and leaves the story hanging.
Sebastian joins a project claiming to offer an answer to teenage unhappiness and tries to focus genuinely on self-improvement.
A researcher isolates 17-year-olds from friends, families and phones in a Scottish wilderness retreat, where the positive surface soon seems suspicious.
The book involves anxiety, bullying, being closeted, isolation from family and friends, and a retreat that feels sinister.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.