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Where the seeds of uncertainty that I'd so long shut my eyes to, began to take root.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo begins Claris Millar's account of her struggles to first abide by the law... and then to break it. It's 2041. The population bomb has exploded. The climate is in crisis. Only extreme measures will save our species. And in an attempt to restore balance, the government has legalised Collections. Unimaginable. Understandable. Unavoidable?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eClaris works in a government Collections Depot, but after her beloved husband is taken there to die—a sacrifice he makes willingly to help reduce population pressure—she finds her job increasingly abhorrent. Plagued by unease and indecision, she tries to reconcile her morals with reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten with grace and a luminous intensity, \u003cem\u003eThe Collections\u003c\/em\u003e delivers a startling story about taking control of one's fate. 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When Jane Digby, the Lady Ellenborough, granddaughter of the Earl of Leicester, informs the British Consul in Damascus that this is what she intends to do, he quickly learns she's a woman who brooks no argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Syria, Jane hopes at last to settle, only to discover a world of recklessness and integrity, of cruelty and desire, where her own passion is stirred more than she ever dared hope for. \u003ci\u003eThe Remarkable Miss Digby\u003c\/i\u003e is a hauntingly beautiful story of a woman determined to escape the confines of her class and gender, living during a time of religious and cultural upheaval which uncannily mirrors our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJane Digby's scandalous life has been well chronicled. 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