This is not a real book, however, in the online Dystopian World it comes from, it's very real.
It appears that this site has been around since 2013, and although I have only browsed through it a bit, the concept of this town almost seems to be one that could take hold in thr world we are currently living in.
"Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. Here in Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science; hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm..."
https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/02/children-hallucinogens.html>As bizarre as Scarfolk seems, it seems to channel dark themes from within our own society, then adopts it as it own to the Nth power.▪I'm only posting it because it might compel some to see parallels within our own fears of our. future.