Under Story

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 '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.

Chloe Benjamin is the author of The New York Times bestseller The Immortalists, and The Anatomy of Dreams. The Immortalists was a Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly and NPR Best Book of 2018. Her work has been translated into 30 languages. She lives with her husband in the San Francisco Bay area.