Julia (Suzanna Hamilton) and Winston (John Hurt) in the 1984 adaptation Entertainment Pictures/Alamy
Julia
Sandra Newman (Granta Books 19 October UK; 24 October US)
WHEN Julia first arrives in London, her mind must rearrange itself around her new life under the ubiquitous telescreens. “She’d started out feeling self-conscious and important, panicked by every careless word and proud of every Partyful comment.”
Fans of Nineteen Eighty-Four will have spotted the Newspeak of Oceania, the totalitarian state that surveilled its citizens’ every twitch in George Orwell’s novel. In the original, mononymous Julia was the …
