Celestial Lights
Format:Hardback
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Publishing:26th Mar '26
£16.99
This title is due to be published on 26th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
'Incredibly beautiful … deeply moving' ORE AGBAJE-WILLIAMS
'Masterful … melds sharp insight with great heart' NICOLE DINAN
'Thoughtful and compelling' ALICE WINN
A beautiful, heartbreaking novel about ambition, love and space from the award-winning author of the Women’s Prize longlisted Wandering Souls.
January 28, 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 unchartered 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, ten years later, 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.
Praise for Celestial Lights:
'Pin’s sophomore novel is a masterful meditation on ambition and the vanity of legacy.Celestial Lights melds sharp insight with great heart’ Nicole Dinan, author of Disappoint Me
'A thoughtful and compelling exploration of human ambition, perfect for fans of Interstellar' Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam
‘With this incredibly beautiful and emotive second novel, Cecile Pin has proved once again that she truly knows every corner of what it is to be human. Celestial Lights is a deeply moving story about the cost of the lives we live that I will be thinking about for a very long time’ Ore Agbaje-Williams, author of The Three of Us
‘Truly lovely … Celestial Lights has the scope of an epic, but subtly rendered' Jo Hamya, author of The Hypocrite
Praise for Wandering Souls:
‘I raced through it. Beautiful, brilliant, unflinching’ R.F. Kuang, author of Katabasis
‘This lean, affecting book packs a mighty punch and heralds a dazzling new talent’Observer
‘Powerful … a bold debut that breaks new ground’ Sunday Times
‘A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope through a long-overdue portrayal of Vietnamese life in the UK’ Ocean Vuong, author of The Emperor of Gladness
‘A heartbreaking novel … a deeply affecting reckoning with history’ i-D
‘A poignant saga with its grieving, beating heart firmly in the right place, and heralds the arrival of an ambitious and promising new talent’ Guardian
‘A powerful story of courage, love and unwavering hope’Marie Claire
‘Something special – a polyvocal novel, an essay on inherited trauma and a quiet metafiction about telling stories we don’t own’ New York Times
‘Meticulously researched and beautifully imagined … deeply affecting’ Tash Aw, author of The South
‘As relevant now as it ever was. You won’t get through this without your heart breaking’ AnOther Magazine
ISBN: 9780008706395
Dimensions: 222mm x 141mm x 21mm
Weight: 270g
272 pages