Bonding

For readers of Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Exciting Times, an addictive, dark and sexy debut novel about falling in love as society falls apart.

A uniquely modern love story about three people who might just change the world, if only they could stop sleeping with each other . . . Set in London, Bonding follows an unnamed narrator as she sets out to change her life, one ill-advised decision at a time. She is thirty-two. She shares a flat with someone she barely knows and works in a dull marketing job. After being fired unexpectedly, she books an impulsive mini-break in Ibiza while wandering the vastness of Westfield Stratford. On holiday she meets Tom and gets so high she can''t remember sleeping with him. Back in London, she is contacted by Lara, a woman from her past, and someone she used to sleep with. Lara works at Openr, an innovative dating app for people seeking non-traditional relationships and she offers our narrator exactly what she needs: a job. But then things get complicated. Openr knows no limits and Lara will stop at nothing to create a perfectly flat marketplace in which everyone is equally attracted to everyone else. So much so that when the antidepressant drug eudaxa that Tom is working on back home starts being taken in higher dosages at Openr''s parties, Lara lets the controversy go viral. A spiralling novel of ideas, Bonding is about our addiction to modern love and the lengths we will go to in order to get exactly what we want. For fans of Exciting Times , Sorrow and Bliss and Cleopatra and Frankenstein , Bonding is a smart, gripping and darkly funny novel about romance and addiction in the digital age.

Autorentext
Mariel Franklin lives and works in London. She has a MA in English from Edinburgh University and later went on to study Fine Art at Goldsmiths. After graduating, she spent several years working in data administrating in the tech industry. Bonding is her first novel.

Klappentext

For readers of Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Exciting Times, an addictive, dark and sexy debut novel about falling in love as society falls apart.