"So we are impossible people. And we have to remain impossible. That is the price of the future..."

Tom is an idealistic young physicist who believes that science is pure. But as he is drawn into the nightmarish world of a despised, outcast minority, he discovers that some truths are too subversive to be allowed to exist...

Anna Lyndsey's first novel, Impossible People, is a story of love, friendship, science and survival - inspired by real, extraordinary lives. Her memoir of life with extreme light sensitivity, Girl in the Dark (Bloomsbury 2015) was translated into several languages and was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.