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Alice Butler has been receiving some odd messages - all anonymous, all written in code. Are they from someone at PopCo, the profit-hungry corporation she works for? Or from Alice's long-lost father? Is someone else on her trail? The solution, she is sure, will involve the code-breaking skills she learned from her grandparents and the key she's been wearing around her neck since she was ten. PopCo is a grown-up adventure of family secrets, puzzles and the power of numbers.
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Contemporary, grave, classical in form and plot-driven.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Scarlett Thomas
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 505
- Publisher
- Harvest Books, Harcourt, HarperPerennial
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781841157641
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