Bonding
12 June 2025
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'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 immediately' - Zadie Smith, author of The Fraud
'This bold and highly impressive debut novel has its thumb right over the sore spots of modern life' - Guardian
Electrifying, urgent, and darkly funny, Mariel Franklin's debut Bonding...
Details
12 June 2025
304 pages
9781035016624
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