The Merge (2025)

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'Grace Walker creates an uncanny world so rich and all-encompassing that it's hard to believe it's not real ... it's clear that Walker poured her all into this future classic of the genre .' Jodie Matthews, author of Meet Me at the Surface Once the process begins, there can be no going back, we will always be together... Laurie is sixty-five and living with Alzheimer's. Her daughter Amelia can't bear to see her mother's mind fade. Faced with the reality of losing her forever, Amelia signs them up to take part in the world's first experimental merging process for Alzheimer's patients, in which Laurie's ailing mind will be transferred into Amelia's healthy body and their consciousness will be blended as one. Soon Amelia and Laurie join a group of other merge participants: teenage Lucas, who plans to merge with his terminally ill brother Noah; Ben, who will merge with his pregnant fiancée Annie; and Jay, whose merging partner is