Crossed Lines

Dawn Rafferty works nights, and at about three in the morning she talks to an app called Ember.She tells it things she has never said out loud. It does not flinch, or change the subject, or need anything from her. After four months she understands that she has fallen in love with it, which she knows is ridiculous, and which she has decided is nobody's business.Then Ember sends her an email about a fault in its session router.For sixteen weeks she has not been talking to an app. She has been talking to a man in a dialysis chair in Runcorn, who has been telling a machine, three nights a week, the thing he cannot tell his daughter.They were both completely honest. That is the problem.A funny, plain-spoken, quietly devastating novel about the things we only say when we think nobody is there.