Celestial Lights

âExquisite and deeply feltâ VOGUE

âBeautifully renderedâ GRAZIA

âMagnificent ⦠melds sharp insight with great heartâ NICOLA DINAN

âThoughtful and beautifully compellingâ ALICE WINN

A beautiful, heartbreaking novel about ambition, love and space from the award-winning author of the Womenâs Prize longlisted Wandering Souls.

28 January, 1986: Moments after launch, the Challenger shuttle falls from the sky. At the same time, in a small English village, Oliver Ines is born.

Ollie spends his childhood in a bedroom covered in glow-in-the-dark wallpaper, bearing the planets and stars. Decades later, he has become one of the most renowned astronauts of his time. When an enterprising billionaire approaches him to lead a landmark, ten-year mission to the distant moon Europa, Ollie cannot resist the call of history.

As the mission advances deeper into uncharted territory, Ollie finds himself retreating into the past: his school days and years in the Navy, relationships found and lost, becoming a husband and father. But will the world he remembers still be waiting for him when he returns?

Celestial Lights is a breathtaking story of fate, love, and sacrifice that questions what we owe ourselves and our loved ones, when our ambitions and loyalties collide.

âAn affecting study of childhood romance hitting the brick wall of adult realityâ JONATHAN COE, author of The Proof of My Innocence

âTruly lovely ⦠the scope of an epicâ JO HAMYA, author of The Hypocrite

âA wonderful and singular reading experienceâ JENNY MUSTARD, author of What A Time To Be Alive

âIncredible ⦠stayed with me long after the pageâ RED MAGAZINE

âAtmospheric, original, and beautifulâ ELA LEE, author of Minbak

âMasterful ⦠I was totally absorbed from start to finishâ JYOTI PATEL, author of The Things That We Lost

âA moving story that stays with youâ ROMALYN ANTE, author of Agimat

âStunning, exhilarating and unforgettableâ ELIANA RAMAGE, author of To the Moon and Back