Dissolution

A Novel

De: Nicholas Binge

Narrado por: Charlotte Strevens, David Thorpe, Joe Eyre

NAMED A BEST THRILLER OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE

“Suspenseful, provocative and surprisingly tender.”—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“Cleverly weaves together time travel and memory games into a hard-to-put-down thriller. It’s an expertly crafted puzzle of a story.”—NEW SCIENTIST

A woman dives into her husband's memories to uncover a decades-old feud threatening reality itself in this staggering technothriller from the bestselling author of Ascension

Maggie Webb has lived the last decade caring for elderly husband, Stanley, as memory loss gradually erases all the beautiful moments they created together. It's the loneliest she's ever felt in her life.

When a mysterious stranger named Hassan appears at her door, he reveals a shocking truth: Stanley isn't losing his memories. Someone is actively removing them to hide a long-buried secret from coming to light. If Maggie does what she's told, she can reverse it. She can get her husband back.

Led by Hassan and his technological marvels, Maggie breaks into her husband's mind, probing the depths of his memories in an effort to save him. The deeper she dives, the more she unravels a mystery spanning continents and centuries, each layer more complex than the last. But Hassan cannot be trusted. Not just memories are disappearing, but pieces of reality itself. If Maggie cannot find out what Stanley did all those years ago, and what Hassan is after, she risks far more than her husband's life. The very course of human history hangs in the balance.

©2025 Nicholas Binge (P)2025 Penguin Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Suspenseful, provocative and surprisingly tender. . . This wild ride of a book [is] both satisfying and deeply moving."—The New York Times

“This twisty, absorbing thriller is both a moving love story and fascinating speculative fiction exploring memory, time and reality.”—The Guardian

“Cleverly weaves together time travel and memory games into a hard-to-put-down thriller. It’s an expertly crafted puzzle of a story.”—New Scientist

Fascinating!

I’m a sucker for an old lady narrator! It was complex without being over my head. Narration was great. I really enjoyed it.

The love story

Slow to start but then picks up, and the love story is sweet. Maggie is a senior citizen hero.

That ending!!!

I loved this book. So clever and such a great story. Performance were fantastic. I loved the ending!!!

Thought this was never end!

This went on entirely too long. I’m not particularly a sci fi reader but have enjoyed books like Dark Matter. Considered not finishing but pushed ahead. 2.5 stars rounded up.

Good. Excellent voice acting. No science.

If you suspend belief then perhaps you can enjoy this. I wouldn't listen to it again, but I definitely listened to it all the way through and I even enjoyed the ending. I don't think I would try another one from this author.

Great start; gripping

Great start, gripping but it’s kinda like The Matrix for me…. Might require 1-2 more reads to fully get it. LOL! Seriously, great premise, great narrator. The build up was real but barely delivered.

voice talent: amazing, story: meeh

A rare time when the voice talent outshines the story. The story was not bad but just a little slow and a little too out there for me. I think I would have had trouble if I was reading it instead of listening to it.

Deliciously twisty and yet heartfelt

The author knocked it out of the park on this one. This book is Christopher Nolan's Tenet meets the love story of Doctor Who's River song and the doctor. So very twisty and yet surprisingly tender and heartwarming at times. Simply lovely.

The plot could have made a great story.

The story droned on and on and there was never a resolution. This could have been a great story, but I eventually grew weary of the story and was ready for it to end.

So much nothing for so little mediocre something

Hoping there would be something worth my time. But it never happened. The same thing repeated over and over. Might have made a decent short story.