Bridge

Critics Review

• An addictive, fascinating and compelling page-turner. With an original take on the many worlds theory.

  Guardian

• A high-concept page-turner

  The Herald

• Beukes puts cerebral propositions into breakneck thrillers

  The Spectator

• You can tell Beukes is having an absolute blast putting words on the page. Her fun is evident in the big, bloody action sequences; in the squirmy, almost retro grotesqueness of the dreamworm.

  The New York Times

• Bridge is a step into the offbeat, an imaginative stew of ingredients: neuroscience and parasitology, musical theory and Haitian Voudou.

  Elle

• Complex, challenging, gripping and thought-provoking. A morally thorny tale without clear-cut heroes or villains. Beukes does a skilful job of balancing desperate but very relatable hope.

  SFX

• A blend of sci-fi and thriller . . . I can highly recommend

  Alison Flood, New Scientist

• Lauren Beukes’ multiverse is thrilling-balancing madness, horror, and a big, bleeding, beating heart that reminds us that we are all connected in the end

  Grady Hendrix

• I absolutely loved it. This fantastic high-wire act of a novel, accelerating to a heart-stopping climax, is at once a cosmic narrative on a grand scale and a deeply intimate human story. Bravo!

  Catriona Ward, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street

• Bridge spiders out into alternate universes, alternate selves, yet manages to be very much about us and our fractured now. It’s a humane, thought-provoking puzzle box, and a wildly entertaining novel

  Paul Tremblay, bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and The Pallbearers Club

• Vast in scope and heart, Bridge is both a thrilling exploration of the known universe and an intimate portrayal of a daughter’s yearning for her mother. Lauren Beukes has crafted a suspenseful, deeply immersive odyssey that will make you consider the alternate possibilities inside us all. A perfect summer read.

  Katie Gutierrez, author of More Than You'll Ever Know

• Lauren Beukes takes a story filled with psychedelic drugs, parallel worlds, and neuroscience and makes it also about a complex mother-daughter relationship, full of darkness, light, and longing. This is fun and insane and very moving

  Mariana Enriquez, author of Our Share of Night

• What if our dreams are twisted-up memories? What if the Mandela Effect isn’t an effect at all? Somewhere between The Lathe of Heaven and Everything Everywhere All at Once is Lauren Beukes’ Bridge: it’s not just reality that’s multifold, it’s identity. Bridge challenges our sense of reality, chips away at our conception of the self, and shoves us down a slide of our own paranoia. But, it’s Lauren Beukes-this is what she does, isn’t it?

  Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians

• Thrilling, complex, and pulse-pounding. Beukes handles the balance between action and emotion brilliantly, this is speculative fiction of the highest calibre

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• A stand-out chase thriller. How can you not fall in love with this book?

  Stephen King

• A major, major talent

  George RR Martin

• Very, very good. It feels effortless. Utterly accomplished

  William Gibson

• A powerful thriller – imaginative, disturbing, tense, compelling reading

  The Times

• Dark, relentless, time-twisting, page-turning … it shines

  Matt Haig

• Powerful and intelligent

  Guardian

• A ripping tale that neither shies away from big questions nor interesting answers

  New Scientist