The novel “The Affirmation” by Christopher Priest was published for the first time in 1981. It won the Ditmar Award. It belongs to the Dream Archipelago series.

Peter Sinclair is in a very bad moment of his life when in a short time he loses his job and comes out of a very complicated love story. He needs to find himself and agrees to do some maintenance work at the cottage of an acquaintance to be able to isolate himself. He starts to write an autobiography but his mind begins to get lost in another world where he lives another life.

Peter Sinclair has won the lottery and the prize is a treatment that will ensure his potential immortality. However, he’ll have to start his life again because the treatment involves the loss of memory. He must write his memoirs to get them back but his identity begins to mix with that of the other Peter Sinclair.