Our tragic universe - Scarlett Thomas

'I was
reading about the end of the universe when I got a text message from my friend
Libby . . .'

If
Kelsey Newman's theory about the end of time is true, we are all going to live
forever. But for Meg - locked in a hopeless relationship and with a deadline
long-gone for a book that she can't write - this thought fills her with
dread.

Meg is
lost in a labyrinth of her own devising. But could there be an important
connection between a wild beast living on Dartmoor, a ship in a bottle, the
science of time, a knitting pattern for the shape of the universe and the
Cottingley Fairies? Or is her life just one long chain of
coincidences?

Smart,
entrancing and buzzing with big ideas, Our Tragic Universe is a book
about how relationships are created and destroyed, and how a story might
just save your life.