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Homebound

Van: Portia Elan
Verteld door: Lisa Flanagan, Helen Laser, Nancy Wu, Yu-Li Alice Shen
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Six hundred years. Five interlocking lives. One computer game. And the many paths that can lead us home.

1983: a grieving teenager is left a game to complete.
2083: a scientist makes a radical discovery about the human spirit.
2586: a sea captain navigates the perils of a flooded world.
Meanwhile: an astronaut is on a rescue mission in deep space.

How do they connect? The puzzle leads back to that teenager. What she is coding will outlast her by centuries, but it will shape the lives of these four pioneering women across centuries, vast oceans and far-distant planets. It will also introduce them to a remarkable robot destined to gather together this disparate crew.

Homebound is a coming out and coming-of-age story, a wild and precarious sea adventure, a space odyssey. As it slips through time, grief, storytelling, found family, it journeys deep into humanity’s future and capacity for love.

* A New Scientist Best New Science Fiction Book 2026 *

‘A Cloud Atlas-like puzzle box’ GUARDIAN
‘A work of joyous and serious invention’ KALIANE BRADLEY
‘Gripping... hauntingly beautiful’ MADELINE MILLER
‘A big, bold, ecstatic world – full of heart and wonder’ RUTH OZEKI

© Portia Elan 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

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A Cloud Atlas-like puzzle-box... Homebound is sentimental, soft-hearted and guileless – the adjectives critics tend to use sneeringly, as though kindness were easy. It’s the sort of book that might have kept my younger self company. I’m glad this generation will have it (Beejay Silcox)
Remarkable (Elif Shafak, Independent)
Dizzyingly ambitious... Elan draws us deep into the personal stories of her protagonists, arguing for agency, indepenence and a celebration of lives lived on their own terms... a hugely impressive debut that immediately establishes Elan as a vital new voice (Declan Burke)
If you enjoyed Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, you’re sure to love this book... a nostalgic literary sci-fi hybrid that isn’t to be missed (Talya Honebeek)
A joy -- at once a gripping mystery that confidently spans centuries, and a hauntingly beautiful exploration of what makes us human. Inventive and gritty, powerful and clear-eyed, it kept me up all night! (MADELINE MILLER, author of The Song of Achilles)
A sparkling novel, a work of joyous and serious invention... profoundly attentive to the concept of home as something portable, created not by territory but by family (born and chosen), storytelling and solidarity (KALIANE BRADLEY, author of The Ministry of Time)
Hotly tipped by The Ministry of Time author Kaliane Bradley
At once an epic odyssey and a quiet ode to loneliness and love, Homebound is a major addition to the sci-fi canon
Homebound is a big, bold, ecstatic world -- full of heart and wonder -- where stories weave through time to connect us, and our faith in each other makes us human (RUTH OZEKI, author of The Book of Form & Emptiness)
A fascinatingly plausible and atmospheric story of a future shaped by tech and love intertwined (EMMA DONOGHUE, author of Room)
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