The brilliant new mind-frazzling adventure from the author of the 150,000 copy-selling The End of Mr. Y

Could a story save your life?

If Kelsey Newman's theory about the end of time is true, we are all going to live forever. But who would want that?

Certainly not Meg, a bright spark trapped in a hopeless relationship. But if she can work out the connection between a wild beast on Dartmoor, a ship in a bottle, the science of time and a knitting pattern for the shape of the universe, she might just find a way out.

"Is it odd to describe a book as kind? The commodity itself seems an increasingly rare thing in an internet-frazzled world, and so how unexpectedly wonderful to read Scarlett Thomas's Our Tragic Universe, a book that brims with a compassion and warmth" - * Guardian *

"Thomas can discuss quantum physics and philosophy while making you think you're reading a sparkling romantic comedy" - * The Times *

"Our Tragic Universe is a huge, ambitious experiment, carried out by one of the finest minds of her generation." - * SFX magazine *

"Warm and brainy" - * Sunday Herald *

"Thomas is excellent on emotional tangles and meandering plotlines that still manage to mean something." - * Independent on Sunday *

"Thomas' style is engaging and lures us into Meg's world." - * Herald *