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Homebound
  • Published: 7 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529970517
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00

Homebound

  • Portia Elan
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Tr. Paperback
5 May 2026
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7 May 2026
Audiobook
7 May 2026
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7 June 2026
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Immersive, open-hearted speculative fiction debut that connects an irresistible cast of characters across six hundred years – for fans of Gabrielle Zevin, Kaliane Bradley, Emily St John Mandel, David Mitchell

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

1983: a grieving teenager can't wait to leave home.
2083: a scientist makes a radical discovery about the human spirit.
2586: a pirate captain navigates the perils of a flooded world.
Meanwhile: an astronaut is on a rescue mission in deep space.

How do these four pioneering women connect, across centuries, vast oceans and far-distant planets? The puzzle leads to a vintage computer game, an unforgettable fellow traveller and a quest: to find out what home means to them.

Homebound is a coming out and coming-of-age story, a wild and precarious sea adventure, a space odyssey. Journeying through loss, creativity, found family, it asks big questions – and offers profound consolations – about life in this lonely, miraculous universe.
  • Published: 7 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529970517
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00
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Praise for Homebound

Elan's debut Homebound is a joy -- at once a gripping mystery that confidently spans centuries, and a hauntingly beautiful exploration of what makes us human. Inventive and gritty, powerful and clear-eyed, it kept me up all night!

MADELINE MILLER

I absolutely inhaled it! What a gorgeous debut -- beautifully written, so much fun and so thoughtful

ELLA RISBRIDGER, author of Midnight Chicken

Homebound is the most original and arresting novel I’ve read in a very long time. Elan has created a century-spanning epic that’s also an utterly intimate story of love, loss, and found family. What a joy; what a marvel

ANNA NORTH, author of Outlawed and Bog Queen

A sparkling novel, a work of joyous and serious invention that moves fluidly between forms - text-based computer game, fable-like tale, coming-of-age story, sea adventure - that is also profoundly attentive to the concept of home as something portable, created not by territory but by family (born and chosen), storytelling and solidarity

KALIANE BRADLEY, author of Ministry of Time