A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER"e;a fascinating reflection on totalitarianism as refracted through Orwell's times and our own"e; The GuardianLondon, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of IngSoc and the rule of the ...