Kindred

**'The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by' Guardian** n n Octavia E. Butler's masterpiece and ground-breaking exploration of power and responsibility, for fans of The Handmaid's Tale, The Power and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing. With an original foreword by Ayobami Adebayo. n n '[Her] evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' New York Times n n 'No novel I've read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as essential' The Pool n n In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer. In 1815, she is assumed a slave. n n When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he's drowning. She saves his life - and it will happen again and again. n n Neither of them understands his power to summon her whenever his life is threatened, nor the significance of the ties that bind them. n n And each time Dana saves him, the more aware she is that her own life might be over before it's even begun. n n Octavia E. Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece is the extraordinary story of two people bound by blood, separated by so much more than time. n n What readers are saying about KINDRED: n n 'It was written in 1979 but could have been written last year. Incredible. I couldn't put it down' n n 'The narrator is us - we see the abomination and humiliation of slavery not through a slave's eyes, but our modern-day eyes, and it makes it all the more powerful' n n 'A must-read for everyone' n n 'Emotionally and viscerally alive and challenging. I don't know how I missed it before now' n