What We Can Know

<b>A quest, a literary thriller and a love story, <i>What We Can Know</i> spans the past, present and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going.</b><br /><br /><b>2014:</b> A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found.<br /><br /><b>2119:</b> The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost.<br /><br />Tom Metcalfe, a scholar at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain's remaining archipelagos, pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith.<br /><br />When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the great lost poem, revelations of entangled love and a brutal crime emerge, destroying his assumptions about a story he thought he knew intimately.<br /><br /><b><i>What We Can Know</i> is a masterpiece that reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe, and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.</b>