Homebound

'A work of joyous and serious invention' KALIANE BRADLEY<BR>'Gripping... hauntingly beautiful' MADELINE MILLER<BR>'A big, bold, ecstatic world - full of heart and wonder' RUTH OZEKI<BR><BR>* ?Guardian Book of the Day * New Scientist Best New Science Fiction 2026 *<BR><BR>Six hundred years. Five interlocking lives.<BR>An immersive, open-hearted exploration of the many paths that can lead us home.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR><BR>? READERS ARE LOVING HOMEBOUND ?<BR><BR>' Beautiful and heartfelt... A masterpiece' ? ? ? ? ? Reader Review<BR><BR>' So heart-achingly good' ? ? ? ? ? Reader Review<BR><BR>'Nobody should miss this immersive and vulnerable debut ' ? ? ? ? ? Reader Review<BR><BR>'Beautifully ambitious... drifts through time, place and genre with real confidence ' ? ? ? ? ? Reader Review<BR><BR>'I'll be recommending this title to everyone' Northwood Library<BR><BR>'I really fell in love with the ambition and scope' Portobello Books, Edinburgh<BR><BR>'Reading it will change you, in both heart and mind' Auntie's Bookstore, Washington<BR><BR>'If you liked Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, you are going to fall for this book, and fall HARD' Crow & Co Books, Minnesota<BR><BR>'For anyone who loved Cloud Cuckoo Land or Cloud Atlas' An Unlikely Story, Massachusetts