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

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A gripping, poignant and page-turning novel from Sunday Times bestseller and Arthur C. Clarke award winner Lauren Beukes Bridge's maverick scientist mother Jo is dead. And Bridge has just discovered her big secret. Is it a drug A gateway to other worlds Jo believed so. Bridge is so desperate to see her mother again, she's willing to do anything to find her - even search in those other realities. She just doesn't realise who else she might find there.

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An addictive, fascinating and compelling page-turner. With an original take on the many worlds theory. * Guardian *
A high-concept page-turner * The Herald *
Beukes puts cerebral propositions into breakneck thrillers * The Spectator *
Excellent * Scotland on Sunday *
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 *
Bridge is a step into the offbeat, an imaginative stew of ingredients: neuroscience and parasitology, musical theory and Haitian Voudou. * Elle *
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 *
A blend of sci-fi and thriller . . . I can highly recommend * Alison Flood, 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 *
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 *
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 *
Thrilling, complex, and pulse-pounding. Beukes handles the balance between action and emotion brilliantly, this is speculative fiction of the highest calibre * Big Issue *
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.