The Family Experiment: A dark and twisted thriller about virtual parenthood from the acclaimed author of The One and The Marriage Act

From the acclaimed author of The One and The Marriage Act , The Family Experiment is a dark and brilliant speculative thriller about families: real and virtual. Some families are virtually perfect… The world’s population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, the breaking point has arrived. A growing number of people can no longer afford to start families, let alone raise them. But for those desperate to experience parenthood, there is an alternative. For a monthly subscription fee, clients can create a virtual child from scratch who they can access via the metaverse and a VR headset. To launch this new initiative, the company behind Virtual Children has created a reality TV show called The Substitute . It will follow ten couples as they raise a virtual child from birth to the age of eighteen but in a condensed nine-month time period. The prize: the right to keep their virtual child, or risk it all for the chance of a real baby… Set in the same universe as John Marrs’s bestselling novel The One and The Marriage Act , The Family Experiment is a dark and twisted thriller about the ultimate Tamagotchi—a virtual baby. — ASIN: 1335000364 | ISBN13: 9781335000361 | ISBN-13: 978-1335000361