Our Tragic Universe
- 7 Apr 2011
- 9781847671295
- £8.99
- 448 pp
- 129×198mm
- 6 May 2010
- 9781847679062
- £7.19
- 448 pp
In a few words
The brilliant new mind-frazzling adventure from the author of the 150,000 copy-selling The End of Mr. Y
In a few words
The brilliant new mind-frazzling adventure from the author of the 150,000 copy-selling The End of Mr. Y
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 delight, not least for the quality of Scarlett Thomas's writing... Full of life and energy.
Philip Pullman
A delight, not least for the quality of Scarlett Thomas's writing... Full of life and energy.
Philip Pullman
Ingenious and original. A cracking good yarn, fizzing with intelligence
More about
the book
Could a story save your life?
If Kelsey Newman’s theory about the end of time is true, we are all going to live forever. But who would want that?
Certainly not Meg, a bright spark trapped in a hopeless relationship. But if she can work out the connection between a wild beast on Dartmoor, a ship in a bottle, the science of time and a knitting pattern for the shape of the universe, she might just find a way out.
More about
the book
Could a story save your life?
If Kelsey Newman’s theory about the end of time is true, we are all going to live forever. But who would want that?
Certainly not Meg, a bright spark trapped in a hopeless relationship. But if she can work out the connection between a wild beast on Dartmoor, a ship in a bottle, the science of time a knitting pattern for the shape of the universe, she might just find a way out.
Is it odd to describe a book as kind? The commodity itself seems an increasingly rare thing in an internet-frazzled world, and so how unexpectedly wonderful to read Scarlett Thomas's Our Tragic Universe, a book that brims with a compassion and warmth
Patrick Ness
GuardianThomas can discuss quantum physics and philosophy while making you think you're reading a sparkling romantic comedy
Kate Saunders
The TimesOur Tragic Universe is a huge, ambitious experiment, carried out by one of the finest minds of her generation.
Warm and brainy
Colin Waters
Sunday HeraldOur 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
Richly allusive, freewheeling and enormously satisfying
Immensely bright and very much on the cutting edge
A masterpiece... A brilliant and engaging story that makes you rethink the nature of existence and the true structure of the world
