The Marriage Act: The unmissable speculative thriller from the author of The One

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Thank You to my friend Susan for gifting me a copy from the BOOK DEPOSITORY for a recent birthday! 🎂🍰 A scarily plausible alternative future with a truly twisted narrative. Tensely plotted and terrifyingly imagined.”—Harriet Tyce, bestselling author of Blood Orange It’s much more than Big Brother is watching you. ….hearing you, judging you oh and don’t forget, controlling you, life and marriage. I guess everyone searches for the perfect mate, the perfect, partner one who would compliment you in everyday life. Arthur's perspective was very sad, Corinne's made my blood boil, I felt sympathy for Anthony, and Jeffrey was... is it okay to say fun?

The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society’s ills – the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively encourages marriage as the norm, punishing those who choose to remain single.

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But four couples are about to discover just how impossible relationships can be when the government is monitoring every aspect of our personal lives, monitoring every word, every minor disagreement . . . and will use every tool in its arsenal to ensure everyone will love, honour and obey. Not everyone feels that AI can correctly gauge a relationship’s health. After all, AI doesn’t have a sense of humor, and it cannot feel empathy or loneliness. The story in The Marriage Act revolves around a couple of people who give the reader a look into how the world has changed. It's not only the marriage as such, it is also the laws that dictate how and where you can live, and if the marriage fails, what the consequences are. Britain, future times. Couples agree to the Smart Marriage, where they are monitored from time to time. If their marriage is in trouble, a relationship responder will come in and help iron out the issues. If they can't, then they may separate. Except not everyone is playing by the rules and disharmony in a marriage can lead to more than separation. I love this author’s books,ever since ‘The One’ I have eagerly awaited every new book and enjoyed them,'The One’ has always remained my favourite……until I read this….written in the same formula,each chapter relating to a different character and each chapter left on a cliffhanger,superbly done and had me transfixed the whole way through

The One has been translated into 30 different languages and is to be turned into an eight-part Netflix series starting in autumn 2020.

The Marriage Act

From the fertile imagination of John Marrs who gave us The One and The Passengers, both of which are referenced here, he now offers us a vision of a Britain controlled by The Marriage Act. A smart marriage brings multiple benefits such as tax perks, a starter home in a purpose-built town and NHS+. So sign up now at www.smartmarriage.co.uk.