Chloe Benjamin - Böcker

'An epic love story, wondrous, wildly ambitious' Ann Napolitano'Under Story is dazzling, it will change you' Emilia Hart'A sci-fi love story full of intrigue and tenderness' Claire Fuller'Stunning and moving and ludicrously inventive' Bobby Palmer'Heartbreaking and mind-bending, I couldn't put it down' ***** Reader Review'I read it in a fever dream. A vividly human story' ***** Reader ReviewWHAT IF TOMORROW WAS ALREADY WRITTEN, BUT YESTERDAY WAS YOURS TO CHANGE?At an isolated research station in Antarctica, biologist Laurel Salter washes dishes for a living ten hours a day, six days a week. She tells no one why she left her career, or why her marriage ended.But even in this remote outpost, Laurel can't outrun her past. When a strange light appears across the ice and draws a group of physicists to McMurdo, her former husband, Eli, won't be far behind.Laurel is captivated by the Arc: its surreal glow; the way it seems almost alive. And though Eli is reluctant to test her wildest theory, Laurel is convinced that the Arc leads down a rabbit hole, and into a world they can barely imagine. Can she persuade him to risk everything to fix the burden that hangs between them - to turn back the clock and live their story a second time?And this time, live it differently.Once read, never forgotten, Under Story is a genre-defying exploration of the promise of this life, what might lie beyond it, and how far we would go for more time with the people we love.

'Once I started reading The Immortalists, I resented every moment I had to spend away from the book until I'd finished' Stylist'A compelling and utterly absorbing read with virtuoso storytelling on display' Sunday ExpressIt's 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York's Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young for what they're about to hear, sneak out to learn their fortunes.Such prophecies could be dismissed as trickery and nonsense, yet the Golds bury theirs deep. Over the years that follow they attempt to ignore, embrace, cheat and defy the 'knowledge' given to them that day - but it will shape the course of their lives forever.Readers love The Immortalists:'I read this book over three days and will remember it for a lifetime' *****'This is a book that I never wanted to finish reading. I truly enjoyed each single word of it' *****'A book of epic proportions. . . mystical and hugely memorable . . . I can't praise it highly enough. A must read!' *****'Deserves all the noise around it' *****'One of those books I wish I could un-read so I could read it all over again for the first time' *****'A perfect book club read' *****

The bewitching first novel from the bestselling author of THE IMMORTALISTS'Benjamin is a gifted writer, a creator of quiet asides and haunting images' Financial Times'Matches the subtle surrealism of a dream with the underpinnings of a thriller' Emma Straub'You wonder if here is a writer who is truly capable of anything' Daily MailSylvie and Gabe meet and fall in love at boarding school in Northern California when they are just teenagers. Their headmaster is the enigmatic and mysterious Dr Keller, a man obsessed with the idea that people's waking stress and trauma can be cured in their dreams. The young couple can't help but be drawn into his magnetic pull and slowly become involved in his research. Years later, Sylvie and Gabe are once again working on Dr Keller's experiments and Sylvie slowly begins to realise there is more both to her employer and her lover than meets the eye, and that the line between dreams and reality has become dangerously blurred.

I New York anländer en mystisk kvinna som kan förutsäga framtiden. Rykten om detta når Gold-familjen, och de bestämmer sig för att ta reda på vad som väntar dem. Profetian sträcker sig över de närmaste fem decennierna. Simon reser till Västkusten i sökandet efter kärlek i San Francisco. Drömmaren Clara blir illusionist i Las Vegas. Daniel, som överlevde attacken mot World Trade Center, blir militär läkare. Äldsta barnet i familjen, Varya, ägnar sig åt studiet av långt liv. Är deras dagar verkligen räknade, och på vem beror det? Sökare av odödlighet måste välja mellan verklighet och illusion, det förflutna och framtiden, kärlek och lidande...