Beautiful and heartfelt... A masterpiece
Intricate, compelling and completely absorbing heartbreaking, uplifting, intensely moving
Beautifully written a novel of found family, acceptance, loneliness and belonging
Breathtaking so different
So heart-achingly good
Beautiful and mysterious
Nobody should miss this immersive and vulnerable debut
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet meets Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Complex, inter-branching and thought-provoking
Beautifully ambitious... drifts through time, place and genre with real confidence
Unlike anything you have read before
For fans of Sea of Tranquillity and Migrations

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
* Guardian Book of the Day * New Scientist Best New Science Fiction 2026 *

Six hundred years. Five interlocking lives. One computer game.
And the many paths that can lead us home.

1983: a grieving teenager is left a game to complete.
2083: a scientist makes a radical discovery about the human spirit.
2586: a sea captain navigates the perils of a flooded world.
Meanwhile: an astronaut is on a rescue mission in deep space.

How do they connect? The puzzle leads back to that teenager. What she is coding will outlast her by centuries, but it will shape the lives of these four pioneering women across centuries, vast oceans and far-distant planets. It will also introduce them to a remarkable robot destined to gather together this disparate crew.

Homebound is a coming out and coming-of-age story, a wild and precarious sea adventure, a space odyssey. As it slips through time, grief, storytelling, found family, it journeys deep into humanity s future and capacity for love.

A Cloud Atlas-like puzzle box GUARDIAN
A work of joyous and serious invention KALIANE BRADLEY
Gripping... hauntingly beautiful MADELINE MILLER
A big, bold, ecstatic world full of heart and wonder RUTH OZEKI