{"product_id":"homebound-independent-exclusive-edition","title":"Homebound (Independent Exclusive Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSix hundred years. Five interlocking lives. One computer game.\u003cbr\u003eAn intricate, open-hearted adventure about the many paths that can lead us home.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s 1983 and Becks can’t wait to get the hell out of Cincinnati. But for now she has work to do: her programmer uncle, the only person who understood her, has left her a half-finished game to complete.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe game will outlast Becks by centuries and shape the lives of a scientist, an astronaut and a pirate captain in ways she cannot imagine. In a beautiful puzzle that connects 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHomebound\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55710735532417,"sku":"9781784746162","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0244\/8444\/6286\/files\/1_3ab27899-b102-4145-b4b4-535e480c0e0b.png?v=1779373818","url":"https:\/\/shop.bl.uk\/products\/homebound-independent-exclusive-edition","provider":"British Library Online Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}