{"product_id":"the-expanded-earth-9781472158345","title":"The Expanded Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Mikey Please has one of the most brilliant minds I know; the perfect combination of science, philosophy and madness'' Daniel Kwan, Oscar-winning director of \u003ci\u003eEverything Everywhere All At Once\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e''The Expanded Earth\u003c\/i\u003e genuinely changed the way I look at the world around me. I loved the fantastic, horrifying, heartwarming, mind-boggling adventure of it. Mikey please is a singular breed of genius and this book proves it yet again'' Emma Hooper, author of \u003ci\u003eEtta and Otto and Russell and James\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''An excellent, inventive novel'' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHumankind has been reduced to the height of a handspan - a transformation that is both potentially lethal and exasperatingly inconvenient.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On a remote coastal path, Giles awakes in his new body to discover a world reshaped and magnified into a place of astounding abundance and deadly peril. Desperate to reconnect with his loved ones, he seeks the help of fellow survivors, and together they embark on a quest across the altered landscape. But as their journey unfolds, the more the question persists - are they still truly human, or has their reduction in size marked the beginning of a descent into savagery, an evolution into something \u003ci\u003eother\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Elsewhere, one week earlier, Professor Elizabeth Goodwin makes a monumental discovery - God is alive and physically among us, but not in the form we''ve been taught to expect. As Goodwin prepares to make first contact with the omnipresent ocean-spanning creature, forces conspire in the wings, and the spectre of imminent catastrophe inches closer and closer still . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dark, witty, and wildly ambitious, Mikey Please guides us into \u003ci\u003eThe Expanded Earth, \u003c\/i\u003ea high-stakes adventure packed with jeopardy and life-affirming beauty - a story that ultimately celebrates the capacity of small things to effect great change. The first in a spellbinding trilogy, this beautifully illustrated debut novel marks the arrival of a new talent and perhaps a new genre - the world of the micropocalypse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019901239639,"sku":"9781472158345","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781472158345.jpg?v=1750781663","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-expanded-earth-9781472158345","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}