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Bonding
- Author
- Mariel Franklin
- Narrator
- Ellie Kendrick
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 27 June 2024
- Run Time
- 10 hours 24 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Modern and Contemporary romance, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems
- Rating
- 4.0 (1 review)
What to expect
'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
'This bold and highly impressive debut novel has its thumb right over the sore spots of modern life' - Guardian
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.
'Audacious, hot, deeply uncomfortable and genuinely thrilling' - Saba Sams, author of Send Nudes
Critics Review
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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
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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
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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
Observer
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This smart, disturbing debut reads like a 19th-century novel of manners for the digital age . . . Franklin has written one of the most stimulating novels I have read
The Times
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A fast, harsh, smart and fun satire of contemporary tech elites.
Guardian
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Franklin’s agile, thought-provoking tale throbs with ideas, fears and cautions.
Financial Times
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Details
- Author
- Mariel Franklin
- Narrator
- Ellie Kendrick
- Duration
- 10 hours 24 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 June 2024
- ISBN
- 9781035016617
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Modern and Contemporary romance, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems
- Rating
- 4.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
'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'This bold and highly impressive debut novel has its thumb right over the sore spots of modern life' - GuardianMary 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.'Audacious, hot, deeply uncomfortable and genuinely thrilling' - Saba Sams, author of Send Nudes
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