A provocative, urgent audiobook about time, family and how a changing
planet might change our lives, from James Bradley, acclaimed author of
The Resurrectionist and editor of The Penguin Book of the Ocean.
Compelling, challenging and resilient, over ten beautifully contained
chapters, Clade canvasses three generations from the very near future to
late this century. Central to the novel is the family of Adam, a
scientist, and his wife Ellie, an artist.
Clade opens with them wanting a child and Adam in a quandary about the
wisdom of this. Their daughter proves to be an elusive little girl and
then a troubled teenager, and by now cracks have appeared in her
parents' marriage. Their grandson is in turn a troubled boy, but when
his character reappears as an adult he's an astronomer, one set to
discover something astounding in the universe.
With great skill James Bradley shifts us subtly forward through the
decades, through disasters and plagues, miraculous small moments and
acts of great courage. Elegant, evocative, understated and
thought-provoking, it is the work of a writer in command of the major
themes of our time.
