<B>A damaged teenage tech prodigy meets an enigmatic waitress in a tiny Tokyo café, sparking an epic journey across Japan that will change everything, forever … a captivating, masterful novel with an extraordinary mystery at its heart…</B><BR/><BR/>‘Set against a tech heavy backdrop <I>Beautiful Shining People </I>blooms into an emotional and soulful tale that reckons with the isolation we can all feel as outsiders’ <B><I>SciFi Now</I> Book of the Month</B><BR/><BR/>‘That <I>Beautiful Shining People</I> isn’t just a slipstream novel with pretensions to being literature is in great part down to the deftness and tenderness with which Grothaus draws his central relationship … to let us explore a world of robots and deepfakes that’s just unfamiliar enough to be exotic’ <B><I>SFX Magazine </I>Book of the Month</B><BR/><BR/>‘A fascinating exploration of what it means to be human in a world where e