{"product_id":"9781784746162","title":"Homebound","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A work of joyous and serious invention' KALIANE BRADLEY\u003cbr\u003e'Gripping... hauntingly beautiful' MADELINE MILLER\u003cbr\u003e'A big, bold, ecstatic world - full of heart and wonder' RUTH OZEKI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSix hundred years. Five interlocking lives.\u003cbr\u003eAn immersive, open-hearted exploration of the many paths that can lead us home.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomebound \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e⭐ \u003cb\u003eREADERS ARE \u003cu\u003eLOVING\u003c\/u\u003e \u003ci\u003eHOMEBOUND\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e ⭐\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e' Beautiful and heartfelt... \u003cb\u003eA masterpiece\u003c\/b\u003e' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Reader Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e' So \u003cb\u003eheart-achingly good\u003c\/b\u003e' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Reader Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eNobody should miss \u003c\/b\u003e this immersive and vulnerable debut ' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Reader Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eBeautifully ambitious\u003c\/b\u003e... drifts through time, place and genre with real confidence ' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Reader Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I'll be \u003cb\u003erecommending this title to everyone\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003eNorthwood Library\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I really \u003cb\u003efell in love with the ambition and scope\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003ePortobello Books, Edinburgh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Reading \u003cb\u003eit will change you\u003c\/b\u003e, in both heart and mind' \u003ci\u003eAuntie's Bookstore, Washington\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'If you liked \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, you are going to fall for this book, and fall HARD' \u003ci\u003eCrow \u0026amp; Co Books, Minnesota\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'For anyone who loved \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCloud Cuckoo Land\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e or \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003eAn Unlikely Story, Massachusetts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elan, Portia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57800470954358,"sku":"9781784746162","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1208\/4146\/files\/9781784746162.jpg?v=1777979694","url":"https:\/\/chepstowbooks.co.uk\/products\/9781784746162","provider":"Chepstow Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}