Out on 12 June 2025
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Bonding

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12 June 2025
304 pages
9781035016624
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

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
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
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
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