'Ingenious and compelling' THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE MONTH 'Mind-bendingly clever and utterly
gripping' DAILY MAIL 'A fascinating and assured debut' THE GUARDIAN It's 1962 and physics
student Grace Pulansky believes she has met the man of her dreams Robert Jones while serving
up slices of pecan pie at the local diner. But then the FBI shows up with their fedoras and
off-the-rack business suits and accuses him of being a bomb-planting mass-murderer. Finding
herself on the run with Jones across America's Southwest the discoveries awaiting Gracie will
undermine everything she knows about the universe. Her story will reveal how scores of lives -
an identity-swapping rock star a mourning lover in ancient China Nazi hunters in pursuit of a
terrible secret a crazed artist in pre-revolutionary France an astronaut struggling with a
turbulent interplanetary future and many more - are interconnected across space and time by
love grief and quantum entanglement. Spanning continents centuries and dimensions this
exquisitely crafted and madly inventive novel - a triple-disk concept-album of a book - is a
profound yet propulsive enquiry into the nature of reality - the perfect immersive read for
fans of David Mitchell Emily St. John Mandel Neil Gaiman and Margaret Atwood. 'A book
designed to be more than the sum of its parts and one that achieves that because love is the
thing that binds it together. Vitally fresh' DOMINIC NOLAN 'With strong echoes of David
Mitchell Haruki Murakami or Emily St John Mandel...this is a madcap ride to somewhere new with
thrills to spare and a gallery of truly fascinating characters. One for the ages.' CRIME TIME
'A trans-dimensional kaleidoscopic mystery-box of a novel.... wholly and riotously original.
Haddon is a mad scientist of genre and his epic is a tour de force.' PETER HO DAVIES
