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Bonding By Mariel Franklin

12.50

‘I absolutely loved it’ ZADIE SMITH
‘Fast, harsh, smart and fun’GUARDIAN
‘Genuinely thrilling’ SABA SAMS, AUTHOR OF GUNK

Mary is single, jobless, and on her way to Ibiza.

There, at a party, she meets Tom, a brilliant chemist on the verge of launching a new drug that claims to cure the anxieties of modern life.

Back in London after a heady trip, Mary begins going out with Tom and working for her sort-of-ex Lara, who has created innovative dating app designed to revolutionize the industry. As tech and pharma collide, she is forced to question what love and success mean in a world that is hurtling out of control.

Electrifying, urgent, and darkly funny, Mariel Franklin’s debut Bonding is a uniquely modern story of sex, tech and freedom in the messy tangle of our digital age.

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I absolutely loved it. Anyone interested in the relationship between tech, our bodies and our minds should bump it to the top of their queue immediately
Zadie Smith, author of The Fraud

As relishable as it is terrifying, Bonding is an audacious, hot, deeply uncomfortable and genuinely thrilling deep-dive into the dystopian future in which we now live
Saba Sams, author of Send Nudes

So obviously impressive . . . With its dissident intelligence and its comprehensive vision of a devastated social sphere, Mariel Franklin’s Bonding is the work of an author whose importance already feels assured
The Observer

This smart, disturbing debut reads like a nineteenth-century novel of manners for the digital age . . . Franklin has written one of the most stimulating novels I have read
The Times

With dazzling imagination, Franklin fashions cutting-edge concepts, then uses them to pry open the human heart and interrogate the eternal questions therein. Chilling but warm, eagle-eyed yet sweeping, Bonding is a fascinating, ambitious tale for our modern age.
Andrew Lipstein, author of The Vegan

Fast, harsh, smart and fun
Guardian

Somewhere between Big Pharma-topia and dating app start-ups is Bonding‘s biggest surprise – and it’s heart-shaped. Part love story, part love-mare, Bonding asks big, bold questions about the future of human relations and relationships
�Sarah�May, author of�Becky

Franklin’s agile, thought-provoking tale throbs with ideas, fears and cautions.
Financial Times

An addictive and unsparing novel. Mariel Franklin contends with some of our most urgent questions . . . a gorgeous, clear-eyed, and terrifying debut, Bonding is a love story for our times.
Claudia Day, author of Daughter

Franklin arranges her vision of the contemporary moment in a way that makes the reader see our predicament anew. She is a seer and this novel of ideas is funny, sexy and surprising.
Luke Brown, author Theft

Franklin is a fearless writer. In Bonding, she has written a novel that is somehow both timely and timeless.
Keiran Goddard, author of�I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning

Weight 0.242 kg
Dimensions 197 × 131 × 22 cm