Under Story

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE IMMORTALISTS COMES AN ENTHRALLING NEW NOVEL THAT ASKS: WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR MORE TIME WITH THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE? 'Like The Overstory meets Interstellar. It has blown my mind' Caro Claire Burke 'Rapturously beautiful.

I was in awe' Kaliane Bradley 'An epic love story, wondrous, wildly ambitious' Ann Napolitano' Utterly transporting, both breathtaking and profound' Clare Leslie Hall'I read it in a fever dream. A vividly human story' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review' Under Story is dazzling, it will change you' Emilia Hart 'My book of the decade' Holly Bourne 'A sci-fi love story full of intrigue and tenderness' Claire Fuller' Heartbreaking and mind-bending, I couldn't put it down' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review' Stunning and moving and ludicrously inventive' Bobby Palmer At an isolated research station in Antarctica, biologist Laurel Salter washes dishes for a living ten hours a day, six days a week. She tells no one why she left her career, or why her marriage ended.

But even in this remote outpost, Laurel can't outrun her past. When a strange light appears across the ice and draws a group of physicists to McMurdo, her former husband, Eli, won't be far behind. Laurel is captivated by the Arc: its surreal glow; the way it seems almost alive.

And though Eli is reluctant to test her wildest theory, Laurel is convinced that the Arc leads down a rabbit hole and into a world they can barely imagine. Can she persuade him to risk everything to fix the burden that hangs between them - to turn back the clock and live their story a second time? And this time, live it differently.

Once read, never forgotten, Under Story is a genre-defying exploration of the promise of this life, what might lie beyond it, and how far we would go for more time with the people we love.