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Matthew is determined to write one last book, and through its pages find his way back to his beloved husband Greaves, who was killed years earlier in a mass shooting. Their story begins in a backcountry bar, swigging Victoria Bitters. Or was it on the moors of Newington Manor, or the polished deck of the Celestia? A gruff laugh, wide shoulders, that undefinable scent—details flash and vanish as he reaches for them. Has age dulled his memory, or is something else keeping him subdued? When a familiar voice breaks through the fog with a clear message—"You have to get out"—Matthew makes a bid for freedom that launches both men across time and space in pursuit of one another.
From a near-future dystopia to the trenches of Europe, from the American frontier to a town of teenage ghosts, from an interplanetary ship to the steps of the Sydney Opera House, Meridian is transgressive, mischievous, and miraculous. Ness firmly grasps the nettle of the question we all must answer: how do we live with loss, and keep on going?
“A masterful tour-de-force deconstruction of life, love, and literature.”
— Adrian Tchaikovsky, award-winning author of Children of Strife
“An intricate, delightfully metafictional puzzlebox of a story about love in the face of violence, a story that boldly insists that gay love has always existed and will always exist in all times and all genres.”
— Booklist, Starred Review
“Meridian is a dazzling, genre-defying novel about love, grief, memory, and the stories we tell ourselves. At its heart is the extraordinary love between Matthew and Greaves, stretching across decades, continents, wars and even the boundary between life and death. Funny, heartbreaking, and wildly inventive, it asks what happens when we refuse to accept the ending we have been given, and discover that another story might still be possible. A breathtaking celebration of love and the limitless power of fiction.”
— Seth Insua, author of Human, Animal and Man and Wife
“A hymn to hope, a prayer to love, a new queer classic.“
— Kirsty Logan