WINNER OF THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES NEW YORK TIMES GUARDIAN OBSERVER AND PROSPECTIf I had to name a single book that makes sense of these last few dark years it would be this one New York TimesA deeply compelling read ... urgent and necessary Evening StandardNaomi Klein author of eradefining bestsellers The Shock Doctrine This Changes Everything and No Logo is back with her most compulsive and personal book yet a revelatory journey into the mirror world of our polarised ageWhen Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name but had radically different harmful views was getting chronically mistaken for her it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then suddenly it wasnt. She started to find herself grappling with a distorted sense of reality becoming obsessed with reading the threats on social media the endlessly scrolling insults from the followers of her doppelganger. Why had her shadowy other gone down such an extreme path Why was identity all we have to meet the world so unstableTo find out Klein decided to follow her double into a bizarre uncanny mirror world one of conspiracy theories antivaxxers and demagogue hucksters where softfocus wellness influencers make common cause with firebreathing far right propagandists all in the name of protecting the children. In doing so she lifts the lid on our own culture during this surreal moment in history as we turn ourselves into polished virtual brands publicly shame our enemies watch as deep fakes proliferate and whole nations flip from democracy to something far more sinister.This is a book for our age and for all of us a deadly serious dark comedy which invites us to view our reflections in the looking glass. Its for anyone who has lost hours down an internet rabbit hole who wonders why our politics has become so fatally warped and who wants a way out of our collective vertigo and back to fighting for what really matters.