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  • Published: 17 August 2023
  • ISBN: 9781405923767
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432

Bridge

The dazzling new novel from the author of Apple TV’s Shining Girls




The reality-bending, and compelling new novel from Sunday Times bestseller and Arthur C. Clarke award winner Lauren Beukes

Bridge lost her neuroscientist mother Jo to brain cancer. When she is picking through the remains of Jo's life and career, she finds it. Jo called it the dreamworm: a gateway to other worlds, other lives. Or so she believed. Bridge is desperate to see her mother again. Will do anything, risk anything, including using the dreamworm. But there are others who believe in it too. Some want to possess it for themselves. While a few know it's their duty to destroy anyone it touches. Bridge? She just wants to find her mother . . .

  • Published: 17 August 2023
  • ISBN: 9781405923767
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432

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Praise for Bridge

Praise for Lauren Beukes

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A major, major talent

George RR Martin

Very, very good. It feels effortless. Utterly accomplished

William Gibson

A powerful thriller - imaginative, disturbing, tense, compelling reading

The Times

Dark, relentless, time-twisting, page-turning ... it shines

Matt Haig

A stand-out chase thriller. How can you not fall in love with this book?

Stephen King

Powerful and intelligent

Guardian

A ripping tale that neither shies away from big questions nor interesting answers

New Scientist

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

Grady Hendrix

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!

Catriona Ward, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street

Bridge spiders out into alternate universes, alternate selves, yet manages to be very much about us and our fractured now. It's a humane, thought-provoking puzzle box, and a wildly entertaining novel

Paul Tremblay, bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and The Pallbearers Club

Lauren Beukes takes a story filled with psychedelic drugs, parallel worlds, and neuroscience and makes it also about a complex mother-daughter relationship, full of darkness, light, and longing. This is fun and insane and very moving

Mariana Enriquez, author of Our Share of Night

What if our dreams are twisted-up memories? What if the Mandela Effect isn't an effect at all? Somewhere between The Lathe of Heaven and Everything Everywhere All at Once is Lauren Beukes' Bridge: it's not just reality that's multifold, it's identity. Bridge challenges our sense of reality, chips away at our conception of the self, and shoves us down a slide of our own paranoia. But, it's Lauren Beukes-this is what she does, isn't it?

Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians

Vast in scope and heart, Bridge is both a thrilling exploration of the known universe and an intimate portrayal of a daughter's yearning for her mother. Lauren Beukes has crafted a suspenseful, deeply immersive odyssey that will make you consider the alternate possibilities inside us all. A perfect summer read.

Katie Gutierrez, author of More Than You'll Ever Know

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

Alison Flood, New Scientist

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.

SFX

Beukes puts cerebral propositions into breakneck thrillers

The Spectator

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

Guardian

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

Elle

A high-concept page-turner

The Herald

Thrilling, complex, and pulse-pounding. Beukes handles the balance between action and emotion brilliantly, this is speculative fiction of the highest calibre

Big Issue

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.

The New York Times

Excellent

Scotland on Sunday