Bonding

Author: Franklin, Mariel

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 12 June 2025 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 352 pages
196 x 130 x 22 | 242g

'I absolutely loved it' - ZADIE SMITH'Fast, harsh, smart and fun' - GUARDIAN'Genuinely thrilling' - SABA SAMS, AUTHOR OF GUNKMary is single, jobless, and on her way to Ibiza.

There, at a party, she meets Tom, a brilliant chemist on the verge of launching a new drug that claims to cure the anxieties of modern life.

Back in London after a heady trip, Mary begins going out with Tom and working for her sort-of-ex Lara, who has created innovative dating app designed to revolutionize the industry. As tech and pharma collide, she is forced to question what love and success mean in a world that is hurtling out of control.

Electrifying, urgent, and darkly funny, Mariel Franklin's debut Bonding is a uniquely modern story of sex, tech and freedom in the messy tangle of our digital age.