Homebound

Six hundred years. Five interlocking lives. One computer game. And the many paths that can lead us home. 1983: a grieving teenager can''t wait to leave home. 2083: a scientist makes a radical discovery about the human spirit. 2586: a pirate captain navigates the perils of a flooded world. Meanwhile: an astronaut is on a rescue mission in deep space. How do these four pioneering women connect, across centuries, vast oceans and far-distant planets? The puzzle leads to a vintage computer game, an unforgettable fellow traveller and a quest: to find out what home means to them. Homebound is a coming out and coming-of-age story, a wild and precarious sea adventure, a space odyssey. Journeying through loss, creativity, found family, it asks big questions - and offers profound consolations - about life in this lonely, miraculous universe.

About the author

Portia Elan

Product details

• Authors: Portia Elan
• Publisher: Chatto and Windus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 07.05.2026
• EAN: 9781784746179
• ISBN: 978-1-78474-617-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Science Fiction / General, Speculative fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, c 1980 to c 1989, FICTION / Multiple Timelines, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Relating to LGBTQIA+ people, Fiction: special features: game-related / LitRPG stories, sci-fi; star wars; dystopia; time travel; urban fantasy