The Comet Seekers
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- £6.99
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
Two lives. One night sky.
Róisín and François first meet in the snowy white expanse of Antarctica, searching for a comet overhead.
While Róisín grew up in a tiny village in Ireland, ablaze with a passion for science and the skies, François was raised by his restless young mother, who dreamt of new worlds but was unable to turn her back on her past.
As we loop back through their lives we see their paths cross as they come closer and closer to this moment, brought together by the infinite possibilities of the night sky.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Former research physicist Sedgwick mines the mysteries of the solar system and human desire to craft a haunting and wonderfully ethereal debut novel about first loves, inescapable loss, and the search for one's place in a complicated world. When R is n, an Irish scientist studying comets, and Fran ois, a French chef, reunite at a research base in the frigid wilds of Antarctica in 2017, the two seem virtually broken because of their respective pasts. R is n, who followed her intergalactic studies from Ireland and France to Hawaii and New York over the course of decades, spent just as many years trying to make sense of and move beyond an illicit relationship with her cousin Liam. Fran ois arrived at the base with his own baggage: Severine, his dying mother, had insisted throughout her life that the ghosts of her ancestors are real. Sedgwick tackles a centuries-spanning interconnected narrative by placing each chapter within the context of a comet's appearance in the sky. The sections that chronicle Severine's conversations with her dearly departed are marked by their magical realism, but those that explore R is n and Liam's star-crossed romance are the standouts, both quietly moving and delicately portrayed. Uniquely structured and stylistically fascinating, the multilayered story comes full circle in a denouement that is both heartbreaking and satisfying.
