The MarkA debut novel of big ideas, The Mark is about misinformation, partisanship, and how societies polarise. In the near future, in Reykjavik, in a world like our own, society is divided about the controversial Empathy Test, which measures an individual's capacity for compassion and identifies anti social behaviour in citizens. Two thirds of the country, including public servants and politicians, have undergone the test and 'marked' themselves in an