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Meet Beth and Chrissie

Beth Walters is the on-call engineer who's spent years trying to make broken systems work. Despite support from friends and colleagues, juggling work and family life is tough and she knows things will change with the arrival of a new boss.

Chrissie Hegarty is the American executive on a mission to improve efficiency. Ambitious and eager to make an impact, she will instead learn what it means to make truly life or death decisions.

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Software runs our world. It doesn’t rule our lives

The Systems are Human

Sandport isn't just another line on a spreadsheet. It's a English port town full of people whose lives depend on their work, no matter how difficult or distasteful they find it.

Chrissie knows that she has a struggle on her hands from the moment the plane touches down. The town is in decline, the local workforce is aging, expensive and will likely oppose her plan every step of the way.

Set on the Kentish coast, Human Software explores relationship between work and home, the inevitable progress of technology and the choices people face when the world around them begin to change.

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Current cover of Human Software by Richard W. Bown
Illustrated map of Kent and the Isle of Thanet
Includes a map of Kent and the Isle of Thanet in both paperback and ebook.

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