{"product_id":"homebound-9781784746179","title":"Homebound","description":"\u003cb\u003eImmersive, open-hearted speculative fiction debut that connects an irresistible cast of characters across six hundred years - for fans of Gabrielle Zevin, Kaliane Bradley, Emily St John Mandel, David Mitchell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A work of joyous and serious invention' \u003cb\u003eKALIANE BRADLEY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Gripping... hauntingly beautiful' \u003cb\u003eMADELINE MILLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A big, bold, ecstatic world - full of heart and wonder' \u003cb\u003eRUTH OZEKI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSix hundred years. Five interlocking lives. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\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\u003e is 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\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e***READERS ARE \u003cu\u003eLOVING\u003c\/u\u003e HOMEBOUND***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Beautiful and heartfelt... \u003cb\u003eA masterpiece\u003c\/b\u003e'\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e5* Reader Review\u003cbr\u003e'So \u003cb\u003eheart-achingly good\u003c\/b\u003e' 5* Reader Review\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eNobody should miss this\u003c\/b\u003e immersive and vulnerable debut' 5* Reader Review\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eBeautifully ambitious\u003c\/b\u003e... drifts through time, place and genre with real confidence' 5* Reader Review\u003cbr\u003e'I'll be \u003cb\u003erecommending this title to everyone\u003c\/b\u003e'\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eNorthwood Library\u003cbr\u003e'I really \u003cb\u003efell in love with the ambition and scope\u003c\/b\u003e' Portobello Books, Edinburgh\u003cbr\u003e'Reading \u003cb\u003eit will change you\u003c\/b\u003e, in both heart and mind' Auntie's Bookstore, Washington\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' Crow \u0026amp; Co Books, Minnesota\u003cbr\u003e'For anyone who loved \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCloud Cuckoo Land \u003c\/i\u003eor \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e' An Unlikely Story, Massachusetts\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Portia Elan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516626599997,"sku":null,"price":33.24,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/homebound-9781784746179","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}