Bonding
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By Mariel Franklin
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‘I absolutely loved it’ – ZADIE SMITH
‘Fast, harsh, smart and fun’ – GUARDIAN
‘Genuinely thrilling’ – SABA SAMS, AUTHOR OF GUNK
Mary is single, jobless, and on her way to Ibiza.
There, at a party, she meets Tom, a brilliant chemist on the verge of launching a new drug that claims to cure the anxieties of modern life.
Back in London after a heady trip, Mary begins going out with Tom and working for her sort-of-ex Lara, who has created innovative dating app designed to revolutionize the industry. As tech and pharma collide, she is forced to question what love and success mean in a world that is hurtling out of control.
Electrifying, urgent, and darkly funny, Mariel Franklin’s debut Bonding is a uniquely modern story of sex, tech and freedom in the messy tangle of our digital age.
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Funny, dark, frustrating, bold and bewildering, this well written & very entertaining novel uses sex, drugs and technology to create a frightening new way of being. Thank goodness for the ending - not the Tom part, the very end.
