Our Tragic Universe
'I was reading about the end of the universe when I got a text message from my friend Libby . . .'
If Kelsey Newman's theory about the end of time is true, we are all going to live forever. But for Meg – locked in a dead-end relationship and with a deadline long-gone for a book that she can't write – this thought fills her with dread.
Meg is lost in a labyrinth of her own devising. But could there be an important connection between a wild beast living on Dartmoor, a ship in a bottle, the science of time, a knitting pattern for the shape of the universe and the Cottingley Fairies? Or is her life just one long chain of coincidences?
Smart, entrancing and buzzing with big ideas, Our Tragic Universe is a book about how relationships are created and destroyed, and how a story might just save your life.
“A delight, not least for the quality of Scarlett Thomas's writing... Full of life and energy.” Philip Pullman
“Our Tragic Universe surprised me, and in such a terrific way. It is so addictive, you can't help but fall deeper and deeper under Scarlett Thomas’s spell. She's a genius.” Douglas Coupland
“... a witty and availably written mind bender about a struggling novelist who makes ends meet ... by ghostwriting genre fiction and reviewing pseudo-scientific books. The result? A mashup of philosophy and New Age semantics with the absurdities of life for a 21st-century British woman on the margins. At first look, this is a hip, cheeky novel of ideas” Library Journal
