TRIGGER WARNING by William W Johnstone except it’s not by him cos he’s dead it’s actually by his illiterate Trumpist nephew. My partner and I get drunk and read chapters to each other, doing the voices we know the author was thinking in his head when he wrote it: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37507173

Yes, he is. He got made redundant from his job screwing on toothpaste caps.

Family of 7 I think? 2 sets of grandparents, mum, dad, Charlie?

An interesting take. It’s one of my favourite books but I’d always considered OBrian as just doing his job. Yes, his job is to be a piece of shit, but there’s no, like, malice to it.

Have you read Julia btw? It came out last month, 1984 as told from her POV. I really enjoyed some of the world expansion and thought the exploration of Winston’s character was really imaginative