{"product_id":"homebound-by-portia-elan-signed-pre-order","title":"Homebound by Portia Elan (INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP EDITION)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"[ lg:columns-2 lg:gap-gutter-lg ]\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-wysiwyg lg:c-wysiwyg--tight-spacing\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP EDITION WITH SPRAYED EDGES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A joy -- at once a gripping mystery that confidently spans centuries, and a hauntingly beautiful exploration of what makes us human.... it kept me up all night!' MADELINE MILLER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSix hundred years. Five interlocking lives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne computer game. And the many paths that can lead us home. It’s 1983 and Becks can’t wait to get the hell out of Cincinnati.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the meantime, she has work to do: her uncle, the only person who understood her, has left her a half-finished game to complete. What Becks is coding will outlast her by centuries and shape the lives of a scientist, an astronaut and a desperate sea captain in ways she cannot imagine. It will connect these four pioneering women across time, vast oceans and far-distant planets and introduce them to a remarkable robot destined to gather together this disparate crew and bring them home.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHomebound is a coming out and coming-of-age story, a wild and precarious sea adventure, a space odyssey. As it slips through time, loss, creativity, found family, it journeys deep into humanity’s future and capacity for love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback | Publication: 7 May 2026, Vintage \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781784746162\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 320 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57216923468158,"sku":null,"price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781784746162.jpg?v=1757667981","url":"https:\/\/www.davids-bookshops.co.uk\/products\/homebound-by-portia-elan-signed-pre-order","provider":"David's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}