**A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**''Laurence Scott ¿ writes beautifully about the experience of reality in the digital age, and about how grief changes our perceptions ¿ I¿m besotted with Scott¿s writing.'' Derren Brown, i paper''Clever, funny and deeply moving... an engaging and thought-provoking journey through the fakery of modern life.''Mail on Sunday''A stylish, playful exploration of what digital life is doing to the way we find meaning in the world.'' Guardian, ''Book of the Week''________________________ In Vladimir Nabokov''s Lolita, the narrator offers a memorably brief account of his mother¿s death: ''picnic, lightning''. Picnic Comma Lightning similarly opens with the death of Laurence Scott''s parents, and the definitive ending of their deaths raises for him one fundamental question: how much of what we live through is truly real? With humour and insight,