ROS ANDERSON
THE HIERARCHIES
Fiction, 352 pages
Dutton, 2020
Sylv.ie is a synthetic woman. A fully sentient robot, designed to cater to her Husband's every whim. But as Sylv.ie learns more about the world and becomes more aware of her place within it, something shifts inside her. Is she malfunctioning, as her Husband thinks, or coming into her own?
Agent: Sian Ellis-Martin
Biography: Ros Anderson grew up in West Penwith at the far end of Cornwall. She trained as a dancer, gaining a degree in Contemporary Dance at De Montfort University, and now works as a journalist and copywriter.
Her debut novel THE HIERARCHIES has been published by Dutton in the USA (2020) and Dead Ink (2021) in the UK and film/TV rights have been optioned. The novel has been described as ‘A quiet triumph… Anderson’s prose — Sylv.ie’s voice — offers a beautiful combination of naivete and wisdom, full of nonhuman puzzlements, off-kilter observations and limpid poetry by the Washington Post.