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***READERS ARE LOVING HOMEBOUND***‘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

***READERS ARE LOVING HOMEBOUND***‘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

'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 OZEKISix hundred years. Five interlocking lives. An immersive, open-hearted exploration of the many paths that can lead us home. It’s 1983 and Becks can’t wait to get the hell out of Cincinnati. But for now she has work to do: her programmer uncle, the only person who understood her, has left her a half-finished game to complete.The game will outlast Becks by centuries and shape the lives of a scientist, an astronaut and a pirate captain in ways she cannot imagine. It will connect these four pioneering women across centuries, vast oceans and far-distant planets and 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, loss, creativity, found family, it journeys deep into humanity’s future and capacity for love.***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‘If you liked Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, you are going to fall for this book, and fall HARD’ Crow & Co Books, Minnesota'For anyone who loved Cloud Cuckoo Land or Cloud Atlas' An Unlikely Story, Massachusetts

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In a dazzling ode to human inventiveness and the desire for meaning, four lives are entangled across time by one unfinished story, saved to a floppy disk in the 1980s and destined to ripple across the centuries. A joy...and a hauntingly beautiful exploration of what makes us human. It kept me up all night! MADELINE MILLER, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Song of Achilles "e;A big, bold, ecstatic worldfull of heart and wonder. RUTH OZEKI, New York Times bestselling author of A Tale for the Time Being1983. Becks is nineteen, blasting her Walkman, and hiding from the fact that her beloved uncle, and the only person who understood her, is dead. Luckily, he left her a half-finished video game to completeone last collaboration to find her way out of loneliness. 2078. Dr. Portman works at the intersection of artificial intelligence and robotics, wrestling with her responsibility to Earth's precarious future. But increasingly, it seems an exceptional project may transcend everything she believed to be possible... 2586. After decades of life on the sea, Yesiko knows a scavenger's work is rife with moral compromise. Yet when a long-lost piece of technology walks aboard her ship, she is set on a path toward a sacrifice even she may be unwilling to make. Linking these women across the centuries is a chain reaction of love, longing, and creativity that reveals our deep interconnectedness. Clear-eyed and hopeful, Homebound imagines how future generations will find meaning in the things we leave behind.