Ply

**'Ply is majestic. A cracked mirror world, a lot like ours; peopled by survivors, a lot like us; 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. Praise for Hernan Diaz's Trust: 'Brilliant' – The Telegraph 'Exhilarating' – Vogue 'Genius' – The Observer 'Enthralling' – Daily Mail 'Hugely entertaining' - Financial Times 'Fascinating . . . unpredictable, clever and massively enjoyable' – *Sunday Times '*What a radiant, profound and moving novel' - Lauren Groff, author of *Matrix '*Glints with wonder and knowledge and mystery' - Rachel Kushner, author of Creation Lake '[A] complex and thrilling book . . . I was obsessed and you might just be too' - Dua Lipa