{"title":"Hanna Bervoets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHanna Bervoets\u003c\/strong\u003e offers incisive and thought-provoking general fiction that explores contemporary life with sharp insight. Her narratives often delve into the complexities of human behaviour, media, and the digital age, inviting readers to reflect on societal norms and personal identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a keen eye for detail and an engaging prose style, Bervoets weaves stories that balance emotional depth with intellectual challenge. Her work, including titles like \u003cem\u003eWe Had To Remove This Post\u003c\/em\u003e, captures the tension between public and private worlds in a rapidly changing society.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"we-had-to-remove-this-post-by-hanna-bervoets-9781529087239","title":"We Had To Remove This Post","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKayleigh needs money. That's why she takes a job as a content moderator for a social media platform whose name she isn't allowed to mention. Her job: reviewing offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and deciding which need to be removed. It's gruelling work. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform's ever-changing moderating guidelines. Yet Kayleigh is good at her job and in her colleagues, she finds a group of friends, even a new girlfriend - and for the first time in her life, Kayleigh's future seems bright. But soon the job seems to change them all, shifting their worlds in alarming ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut when her colleagues begin to break down; when Sigrid, her new girlfriend, grows increasingly distant and fragile; when her friends start espousing the very conspiracy theories they're meant to be evaluating; Kayleigh begins to wonder if the job may be too much for them. She's still totally fine, though - or is she?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Had To Remove This Post\u003c\/em\u003e by Hanna Bervoets is a chilling, powerful and urgent story about what - or who - determines how we see the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eWE HAD TO REMOVE THIS POST\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'The dank underside of social media, its cruelty and delusions, have become, our shared affliction. It needed an accomplished novelist to explore humanely the damage. Hanna Bervoets has richly obliged in this superbly poised, psychologically astute and subtle novel of mental unravelling. At its wonderful, hallucinatory climax, Kayleigh, the shattered protagonist, asks on our behalf the one true question, and the spellbound reader will usefully struggle for an answer.'\u003c\/em\u003e Ian McEwan, author of \u003cem\u003eAtonement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244825456876,"sku":"9781529087239","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529087239-we-had-to-remove-this-post-1.jpg?v=1788017014"},{"product_id":"we-had-to-remove-this-post-by-hanna-bervoets-9781529087246","title":"We Had To Remove This Post","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDOES WHAT YOU SEE CHANGE WHO YOU ARE?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKayleigh is broke. Out of options, she takes a job as a content moderator, reviewing horrors and hate online and deciding which posts need to be removed. Kayleigh is good at her job, and in her colleagues, she finds a group of friends, even a new girlfriend. For the first time in her life, the future seems bright.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut soon the job begins to shift Kayleigh's world in alarming ways. In the glare of the screen, how long can Kayleigh hold on to her humanity?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Had To Remove This Post\u003c\/em\u003e is translated from the Dutch by Emma Rault.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A superbly poised, psychologically astute and subtle novel of mental unravelling'\u003c\/em\u003e - Ian McEwan, author of \u003cem\u003eAtonement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'This novel gives us an acid glimpse into a new form of labour existing today . . . 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