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Bridge's maverick scientist mother Jo is dead. And Bridge has just discovered her big secret.

Is it a drug? A gateway to other worlds? Jo believed so.

Bridge is so desperate to see her mother again, she's willing to do anything to find her - even search in those other realities.

She just doesn't realise who else she might find there.

An addictive, fascinating and compelling page-turner. With an original take on the many worlds theory.
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About Lauren Beukes

LAUREN BEUKES is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of The Shining Girls, which has been adapted by AppleTV+ starring Elisabeth Moss, as well as Zoo City, which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Moxyland, Broken Monsters, and Afterland.
Her novels have been published in twenty-four countries, and she's also a screenwriter, comics writer, journalist, and award-winning documentary maker. She lives in London with two trouble cats and her daughter.

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Imprint: Penguin
Published: 01/08/2024
ISBN: 9781405923750
Length: 432 pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm
Weight: 298g
Price: £9.99

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An addictive, fascinating and compelling page-turner. With an original take on the many worlds theory.

A high-concept page-turner

Beukes puts cerebral propositions into breakneck thrillers

Excellent

You can tell Beukes is having an absolute blast putting words on the page. Her fun is evident in the big, bloody action sequences; in the squirmy, almost retro grotesqueness of the dreamworm.

Bridge is a step into the offbeat, an imaginative stew of ingredients: neuroscience and parasitology, musical theory and Haitian Voudou.

Complex, challenging, gripping and thought-provoking. A morally thorny tale without clear-cut heroes or villains. Beukes does a skilful job of balancing desperate but very relatable hope.

A blend of sci-fi and thriller . . . I can highly recommend

Lauren Beukes' multiverse is thrilling-balancing madness, horror, and a big, bleeding, beating heart that reminds us that we are all connected in the end

I absolutely loved it. This fantastic high-wire act of a novel, accelerating to a heart-stopping climax, is at once a cosmic narrative on a grand scale and a deeply intimate human story. Bravo!

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