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Under Story

The dazzling new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Immortalists

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Pub Date 1 Sep 2026 | Archive Date 29 Sep 2026

Headline | Tinder Press


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'A fiendishly clever, utterly original novel that gets to the heart of what it means to be alive. Under Story is dazzling, it will change you' Emilia Hart, Sunday Times Bestselling author of Weyward and The Sirens

WHAT IF TOMORROW WAS ALREADY WRITTEN, BUT YESTERDAY WAS YOURS TO CHANGE?

'Both intimate and cosmic. Heartbreaking and mind-bending, I couldn't put it down' ***** Reader Review
'I read it in a fever dream. A vividly human story of two people who find themselves at the end of the earth, the end of so many things, and yet - on the cusp of discovery' ***** Reader Review


At an isolated research station in Antarctica, biologist Laurel Salter washes dishes for a living ten hours a day, six days a week. She tells no one why she left her career, or why her marriage ended.

But even in this remote outpost, Laurel can't outrun her past. When a strange light appears across the ice and draws a group of physicists to McMurdo, her former husband, Eli, won't be far behind.

Laurel is captivated by the Arc: its surreal glow; the way it seems almost alive. And though Eli is reluctant to test her wildest theory, Laurel is convinced that the Arc leads down a rabbit hole, and into a world they can barely imagine. Can she persuade him to risk everything to fix the burden that hangs between them - to turn back the clock and live their story a second time?

And this time, live it differently.

Once read, never forgotten, Under Story is a genre-defying exploration of the promise of this life, what might lie beyond it, and how far we would go for more time with the people we love.

'A fiendishly clever, utterly original novel that gets to the heart of what it means to be alive. Under Story is dazzling, it will change you' Emilia Hart, Sunday Times Bestselling author of Weyward...


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ISBN 9781035437382
PRICE £20.00 (GBP)
PAGES 512

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This is an incredibly ambitious book, unlike anything I’ve read before, that feels both intimate and cosmic. Under Story covers Antarctica, mycology and quantum physics, but also aging, love, memory, forgiveness and the ways our lives echo across time and space. It’s heartbreaking, mind-bending and left me wanting to travel to McCurdo Station and across the duoverse. I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a book as much as this one, or the last time I stayed up until 2am reading because I couldn't put it down.

Highly recommended for fans of Nathan Hill’s Wellness, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s This Is How You Lose the Time War, and the A24 film Everything Everywhere All At Once.

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