The Place of Shells Paula Sutton Renegade Books FFJ|FFS Hardback 2025 Helen has already learned some

Helen has already learned some hard truths about her city

and relationships from a charismatic tortoiseshell cat who interprets his guests' astrological chart

As the Federation and the West both start to crumble

they vie for the last word

an experimental artificial mind is malfunctioning

The Place of Shells Paula Sutton Renegade Books FFJ|FFS Hardback 2025 Helen has already learned someIn the summer of 2020, as Germany slowly emerges from lockdown, a young Japanese woman studying in Gttingen waits at the train station to meet an old friend. Nomiya died a decade earlier in the Tohoku tsunami, but he has suddenly returned without any explanation. The reunited friends share a past that's a world away from the tranquillity of Gttingen. Yet Nomiya's spectral presence destabilises something in the city: mysterious guests appear, eerie