Julia

Julia Worthing fixes the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department of the Ministry of Truth and lives in a women's dormitory under the constant watch of the Party. Unlike Winston Smith, Julia is a survivor who has learned to perform loyalty while breaking the rules in private. Sandra Newman retells the events of 1984 from Julia's perspective, opening up the parts of Oceania that Orwell never described, including the petty humiliations of women's lives, the Party's ArtSem artificial-insemination program used to manage reproduction, and the calculations a woman must make to stay alive. When Julia starts her affair with Winston, the machinery of the surveillance state begins to close around her.