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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? Or has someone else been 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 round her neck since she was ten.

PopCo is a grown-up adventure of family secrets, puzzles, big business and the power of numbers.



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An anticorporate fable with enough code-breaking tips, puzzles and graphs, charts, postscripts and appendixes to satisfy Lewis Carroll * * New York Times * *
This book might just change your life -- Suzi Feay * * Independent on Sunday * *
A blueprint for a revolution . . . an outright amazement * * Scotland on Sunday * *
Enormous fun * * Independent * *
A wonderfully fresh and ambitious novel -- Jonathan Coe * * Evening Standard * *
Frankly this novel is a bewitching, dizzying triumph * * Scotsman * *
Ambitious, thought-provoking fun * * Sunday Times * *

PopCo

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    A Paperback / softback by Scarlett Thomas

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      Publisher Canongate Books
      Published 21 April 2016
      ISBN-13 9781782117681
      978-1782117681
      ISBN-10 1782117687
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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? Or has someone else been 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 round her neck since she was ten.

      PopCo is a grown-up adventure of family secrets, puzzles, big business and the power of numbers.



      Trade Review
      An anticorporate fable with enough code-breaking tips, puzzles and graphs, charts, postscripts and appendixes to satisfy Lewis Carroll * * New York Times * *
      This book might just change your life -- Suzi Feay * * Independent on Sunday * *
      A blueprint for a revolution . . . an outright amazement * * Scotland on Sunday * *
      Enormous fun * * Independent * *
      A wonderfully fresh and ambitious novel -- Jonathan Coe * * Evening Standard * *
      Frankly this novel is a bewitching, dizzying triumph * * Scotsman * *
      Ambitious, thought-provoking fun * * Sunday Times * *

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