{"title":"Books by Grace Walker","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781836430490","title":"The Merge","description":"WINNER OF THE NEW ADULT BOOK PRIZE 2026A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK'[A] clever and provocative debut...smart and engaging – like Nineteen Eighty-Four crossed with Never Let Me Go.' Daily Mail'A compelling and disturbing story of love and sacrifice, control and resistance.'Guardian'Pacy, clever and genuinely frightening.' Josh Silver'An excellent novel, an expert balancing act between emotive and speculative elements.' Nicola DinanOnce the process begins, there can be no going back, we will always be together…Laurie is sixty-five and living with Alzheimer’s. Her daughter Amelia can’t bear to see her mother’s mind fade. Faced with the reality of losing her forever, Amelia signs them up to take part in the world’s first experimental merging process for Alzheimer’s patients, in which Laurie’s ailing mind will be transferred into Amelia’s healthy body and their consciousness will be blended as one.   Soon Amelia and Laurie join a group of other merge participants: teenage Lucas, who plans to merge with his terminally ill brother Noah; Ben, who will merge with his pregnant fiancée Annie; and Jay, whose merging partner is his unwilling addict daughter Lara.   As they prepare to move to The Village, a luxurious rehabilitation centre for those who have merged, they quickly begin to question whether everything is really as it seems.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55896484807029,"sku":"9781836430490","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781836430490_149a769a-ddb0-4ab3-84e1-b9b2321fc870.jpg?v=1786028109"},{"product_id":"merge","title":"Merge","description":"\u003cp\u003eI fell completely into \u003ci\u003eThe Merge\u003c\/i\u003e. Pacy, clever and genuinely frightening, it takes on huge ideas about identity, autonomy and what we owe each other, while keeping intimate human relationships at its heart. I couldn't stop thinking about it long after I'd finished.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Josh Silver, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFruit Fly \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA thrilling and ominously prophetic debut set in a world when Earth and its resources have been pushed to breaking point, giving rise to a revolutionaryand highly controversialprocedure in which two people's consciousness can be combined to exist in one body.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaurie is sixty-five and living with Alzheimer's. Her daughter Amelia, a once fiery and strong-willed activist, can't bear to see her mother's mind fade. Faced with the reality of losing her forever, Amelia signs them up to take part in the world's first experimental merging process for Alzheimer's patients, in which Laurie's ailing mind will be transferred into Amelia's healthy body and their consciousness will be blended as one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoon Amelia and Laurie join the opaque and mysterious group of other merge participants: teenage Lucas, who plans to merge with his terminally ill brother Noah; Ben, who will merge with his pregnant fiancee Annie; and Jay, whose merging partner is his addict daughter Lara. 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