Synopsis
From Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later. The Sunday Times bestseller, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel is a story of parallel worlds and possibilities that plays with the very line along which time should run.
'A cunning time-travel narrative . . . unputdownable' - Guardian Best Books of the Year
'So wise, so graceful, so rich' - Naomi Alderman, author of The Power
Lives separated by time and space have collided, and an exiled Englishman, a writer trapped far from home, and a girl destined to die too young, have each glimpsed a world that is not their own.
Travelling through the centuries, between colonies on the moon and an ever-changing Earth, together their lives will solve a mystery that will make you question everything you thought you knew to be true.
From the award-winning author of Station Eleven.
A Best Book of the Year - Guardian, Oprah Daily, Barack Obama
'Brilliant and fiercely original' - Observer
'One of her finest novels' - New York Times
'Transcendent' - Wall Street Journal
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08 April 2022
9781529083521Reviews
Brilliant . . . a fiercely original creation
It is heaven to be immersed in the waters of Mandel's imagination . . . so wise, so graceful, so rich . . . I loved Sea of Tranquility
A spiralling, transportive triumph of storytelling - sci-fi with soul
An ambitious time-travelling panorama of pandemics and parallel worlds
