For Adults
The Merge by Grace Walker is the next book to be featured this season on the Sara Cox Radio 2 Book Club—a striking debut which asks: what if two consciousnesses could be joined together into one person – two people in one head and body? And if so, who would you choose to ‘merge’ with?
You can listen to the live interview with Grace on BBC Sounds from 9 December.
We have the chance for you to win a set of 10 copies of this novel for your book club. To apply, click on the survey link below. UK residents only, deadline for entries 23 December 2025.
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The Merge
Once the process begins, there can be no going back, we will always be together…
Laurie is sixty-five and living with Alzheimer’s. Her daughter Amelia can’t bear to see her mother’s mind fade. Faced with the reality of losing her forever, Amelia signs them up to take part in the world’s first experimental merging process for Alzheimer’s patients, in which Laurie’s ailing mind will be transferred into Amelia’s healthy body and their consciousness will be blended as one.
Soon Amelia and Laurie join a group of other merge participants: teenage Lucas, who plans to merge with his terminally ill brother Noah; Ben, who will merge with his pregnant fiancée Annie; and Jay, whose merging partner is his unwilling addict daughter Lara.
As they prepare to move to The Village, a luxurious rehabilitation centre for those who have merged, they quickly begin to question whether everything is really as it seems.
How to apply
To apply, fill in this survey by 23 December.
