Maybe it's because I read the two up so closely, but this book kind of felt like "The Handmaid's Tale" for the elderly mixed with "The Island" / "Jonas 7: Clone"

Dorrit lives in Sweden, in an undetermined future. Society sees the elderly only as a financial burden if they haven't shown their value in their past life, either by procreating or achieving great successes. Those who didn't manage after a certain age are marked "Dispensable" and brought to "The Unit" where they live the rest of their life. Dorrit, a writer without a family, is one of the Dispensables and the novel starts with her move. "The Unit" is a resort, where she and other "Dispensables" have access to all luxuries of life and no more duties - except participating in medical experiments and donating, bit by bit, their organs to people who are more valuable to society, until they die by giving their final donation.

Like in "The Handmaid's Tale" actually not much happens as such - Dorrit mostly remembers her previous life and settles in The Unit, finds friends and a new love. There is no much drama except what is expected - she becomes close to people only to see them waste away by sickness or being taken in for their last donations. But other than "The Handmaid's tale" the novel has a very passive protagonist in every respect. Dorrit does not more than observe and she does not make any progress by going through her story. In the end nothing is changed, nothing is learned. The horrors of The Unit are shown to us so that we may look at them shock, but nothing is made of it.

I still give three stars because it was an entertaining audibook with a very pleasant reading voice by Suzanne Toren. It just not left any big impression on me.