Happy UK paperback day to meeeee! Bridge is out today in the UK in easy-to-read on the beach / on the tube / side of lido / in the park / at the pub format. It’s a multiverse novel about love and grief, mothers and daughter and friend family and the life we choose, also featuring my favourite ever villain – a middle aged lady with ugly sweaters and a little dog called Mr Floof 2.

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

Via Penguin Random House:

Bridge’s maverick scientist mother Jo is dead.

Now she’s examining everything Jo left behind. Which is when she finds her big secret.

Is it a drug? A gateway to other worlds? Jo believed so.

Bridge is desperate to see her mother again. Will do anything, risk anything. Including search for her in those other realities.

What she doesn’t know is that others are after Jo’s secret. And some believe anyone it touches must be destroyed.

Bridge? She just wants to find her mother…

Page-turning and ambitious, BRIDGE is a dazzlingly inventive speculative thriller with an unforgettable cast of characters, and the work of a novelist at the height of her powers.

‘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

‘An addictive, fascinating and compelling page-turner. With an original take on the many worlds theory.’ – Guardian

‘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