Bridge: The dazzling new novel from the author of Apple TVs Shining Girls

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The page-turning, inventive and dazzling new novel from Sunday Times bestseller and Arthur C. Clarke award winner Lauren Beukes Twenty-four year old drop-out Bridge is paralysed, by the other lives she could have lived, the choices she could have made, and now, whoever she's supposed to be after her mother's premature death. Their relationship was complicated. Jo, a teenage runaway turned maverick neuroscientist, threw everything into chasing a mysterious artefact - the dreamworm - that allows you to switch between realities. Now, any chance of reconciliation is gone. Or is it When Bridge and her best friend Dom stumble on the dreamworm, she becomes convinced her mom is still out there. But the dreamworm is more dangerous than she can imagine, and she's not the only one hunting across time and space...

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Praise for Bridge * : *
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 *
Praise for Lauren Beukes * : *
A stand-out chase thriller. How can you not fall in love with this book -- Stephen King
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
Powerful and intelligent * Guardian *
A ripping tale that neither shies away from big questions nor interesting answers * New Scientist *

Author Bio

Lauren Beukes is the award-winning and internationally best-selling South African author of The Shining Girls, Zoo City, Moxyland, Broken Monsters and Afterland, among other works. Her novels have been published in twenty-four countries and are being adapted for film and TV. She's also a screenwriter, comics writer, journalist and award-winning documentary maker. She lives in London.