
Synopsis
'I absolutely loved it' - ZADIE SMITH
'Fast, harsh, smart and fun' - GUARDIAN
'Genuinely thrilling' - SABA SAMS, AUTHOR OF GUNK
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...
Details
352 pages
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 immediatelyZadie Smith, author of The Fraud
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 liveSaba Sams, author of Send Nudes
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 assuredThe Observer
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 readThe Times