Description
The mind-bending new masterpiece from the multi-award-winning author of Apple TV’s smash hit literary adaptation SHINING GIRLS, starring Elizabeth Moss.
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Bridge’s maverick scientist mother Jo is dead.
Now she’s examining everything Jo left behind.
Which is when she finds her big secret.
Is it a drug?
A gateway to other worlds?
Jo believed so.
Bridge is desperate to see her mother again.
Will do anything, risk anything.
Including search for her in those other realities.
What she doesn’t know is that others
are after Jo’s secret. And some believe anyone
it touches must be destroyed.
Bridge? She just wants to find her mom …
Page-turning and ambitious, BRIDGE is a dazzlingly inventive speculative thriller with an unforgettable cast of characters, and the work of a novelist at the height of her powers.
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‘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
‘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
‘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
