by Benjamin, Chloe | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published 01/09/2026 by Headline Publishing Group (Tinder Press) in the United Kingdom Hardback | 512 pages240 x 156mm | 0g Signed First Edition - Hardback - Publishes September 1st 'An epic love story, wondrous, wildly ambitious' Ann Napolitano 'Under Story is dazzling, it will change you' Emilia Hart 'A sci-fi love story full of intrigue and tenderness' Claire Fuller 'Stunning and moving and ludicrously inventive' Bobby Palmer WHAT IF TOMORROW WAS ALREADY WRITTEN, BUT YESTERDAY WAS YOURS TO CHANGE? At an isolated research station in Antarctica, biologist Laurel Salter washes dishes for a living ten hours a day, six days a week. She tells no one why she left her career, or why her marriage ended. But even in this remote outpost, Laurel can't outrun her past. When a strange light appears across the ice and draws a group of physicists to McMurdo, her former husband, Eli, won't be far behind. Laurel is captivated by the Arc: its surreal glow; the way it seems almost alive. And though Eli is reluctant to test her wildest theory, Laurel is convinced that the Arc leads down a rabbit hole, and into a world they can barely imagine. Can she persuade him to risk everything to fix the burden that hangs between them - to turn back the clock and live their story a second time?And this time, live it differently. Once read, never forgotten, Under Story is a genre-defying exploration of the promise of this life, what might lie beyond it, and how far we would go for more time with the people we love.
