Ply
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Pub Date 24 Sep 2026 | Archive Date 24 Sep 2026
Pan Macmillan | Picador
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Description
'Ply is majestic . . . sentences so fine they break the skin; a plot that swerves through loss, love, trust, betrayal, art, science, society and control' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas
These are the last moments of the world as it's always been known. Reality now begins anew.
The internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust turns to America's future with Ply.
Centuries from now, an orphan adrift in an American city grows up to become a pincher – someone who steals electricity from the grid to sell it on the black market or, in her case, to power the underground music scene she adores. It is a high-risk life, and now she is being followed.
Soon, she is drawn into a paranoid maze where her closest friends and even her own identity are put into question – all while following a thread leading to a groundbreaking experiment that, if she can source the electricity to power it, could change the fabric of reality itself.
Set in a future filled with both uncertainty and promise, Ply is a powerfully humane novel that interrogates the role of technology in a deeply changed society. Both an electrifying thriller and a profound novel of ideas, it offers a hopeful glimpse of a new world that may be growing out of the cracks and fissures we see all around us.
'Ply is a wild ride' - Service95
'I highly recommend [it]' - Sarah Jessica Parker
'Compulsively readable' - Oprah Daily
Readers are blown away by Ply:
'It shook my soul the way only true art can'
'My favorite book of this year'
'In my view, he is perhaps the most important novelist of this century'
'What a phenomenal, ambitious novel'
'Rarely has a novel left me feeling that my relationship with the universe itself has subtly changed'
'A masterfully creative work of fiction'
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781037407161 |
| PRICE | £20.00 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 464 |
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