It’s rare but it does happen: a debut comes along that’s so obviously impressive, so advanced in the reach of its ideas and the gracefulness of its execution, that you want to start proselytising for it before you’ve even turned the final page… Bonding is the work of an author whose importance already feels assured.
This smart, disturbing debut reads like a nineteenth-century novel of manners for the digital age… Franklin has written one of the most stimulating novels I have read in a long time.
The best British debut I’ve read in a long time… The whole package.
I absolutely loved it. Anyone interested in the relationship between tech, our bodies and our minds should bump it to the top of their queue immediately.
Franklin’s agile, thought-provoking tale throbs with ideas, fears and cautions.
A fast, harsh, smart and fun satire of contemporary tech elites.
Audacious, hot, deeply uncomfortable and genuinely thrilling.
Franklin is a fearless writer. In Bonding, she has written a novel that is somehow both timely and timeless.
Franklin arranges her vision of the contemporary moment in a way that makes the reader see our predicament anew. She is a seer and this novel of ideas is funny, sexy and surprising.