{"product_id":"homebound-portia-elan","title":"Homebound - Portia Elan","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"transition: height 0.3s ease-in-out; height: 1091px; max-height: none; overflow: hidden;\" class=\"c-book-details__desc is-open\"\u003e\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSix hundred years. Five interlocking lives.\u003cbr\u003eAn immersive, open-hearted exploration of the many paths that can lead us home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomebound\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***READERS ARE LOVING HOMEBOUND***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Beautiful and heartfelt... A masterpiece' 5* Reader Review\u003cbr\u003e'So heart-achingly good' 5* Reader Review\u003cbr\u003e'Nobody should miss this immersive and vulnerable debut' 5* Reader Review\u003cbr\u003e'Beautifully ambitious... drifts through time, place and genre with real confidence' 5* Reader Review\u003cbr\u003e'I'll be recommending this title to everyone'\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eNorthwood Library\u003cbr\u003e'I really fell in love with the ambition and scope' Portobello Books, Edinburgh\u003cbr\u003e'Reading it will change you, in both heart and mind' Auntie's Bookstore, Washington\u003cbr\u003e‘If you liked\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e, you are going to fall for this book, and fall HARD’ Crow \u0026amp; Co Books, Minnesota\u003cbr\u003e'For anyone who loved\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCloud Cuckoo Land\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eor\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e' An Unlikely Story, Massachusetts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e304 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EmmasatOxford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48015402827930,"sku":null,"price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0013\/9024\/8009\/files\/homebound-9781784746179.jpg?v=1778043184","url":"https:\/\/emmasatoxford.pro\/products\/homebound-portia-elan","provider":"EmmasatOxford","version":"1.0","type":"link"}