Homebound

'A work of joyous and serious invention' KALIANE BRADLEY'A Cloud Atlas-like puzzle-box' GUARDIAN'Remarkable' ELIF SHAFAK'Gripping... hauntingly beautiful' MADELINE MILLER'A big, bold, ecstatic world – full of heart and wonder' RUTH OZEKI A story of searching and remembering, of loving and letting go, and the many ways we can find our way home. It’s the summer of 1983, and Becks is grieving her uncle. He left her a half-built computer game, and she pours all her anger, love and loneliness into completing it. She calls it Homebound, after the mission of its astronaut hero. Six hundred years later, the Earth has been swallowed by oceans. A desperate pirate captain reluctantly accepts three travellers seeking passage to the end of the world. One is a sentient being who witnessed the collapse of civilisation and has been alone ever since. But deep in their memory is a flicker: a story about an astronaut, and the possibility of another being like them. Spanning centuries, different worlds and the furthest reaches of space, Homebound is an intimate human story, a wild adventure and a celebration of the invisible threads that connect us in this lonely, miraculous universe. ***READERS ARE LOVING HOMEBOUND*** 'Beautiful and heartfelt... A masterpiece' 5* Reader Review'So heart-achingly good' 5* Reader Review'Nobody should miss this immersive and vulnerable debut' 5* Reader Review'Beautifully ambitious... drifts through time, place and genre with real confidence' 5* Reader Review'I'll be recommending this title to everyone' Northwood Library'I really fell in love with the ambition and scope' Portobello Books, Edinburgh'Reading it will change you, in both heart and mind' Auntie's Bookstore, Washington'For anyone who loved Cloud Cuckoo Land or Cloud Atlas' An Unlikely Story, Massachusetts