Factory 19

Factory 19 is a 2020 novel by Australian author Dennis Glover.

[1] The narrator of the story is Paul Ritchey, who developed an allergy to digital technology, and relocates to a fictionalised Hobart.

[1] The city had previously been popular tourist attraction due to its "Gallery of Future Art" set up by billionaire Dundas Faussett.

[2] Faussett closes the gallery and Hobart becomes a ghost town.

Two years later, Faussett reappears to create "Factory 19", a factory complex with worker residences that are modelled on life in March 1948.