What a wonderful,strange,terrifying,brilliant novel this is'Kamila ShamsieAS THE WORLD BURNS,ONLY A DREAMER CAN SAVE IT...New York,2000. The United Nations has just planted its flag on Mars,and a Green Party senator is about to become the first female president of the United States. At a party in the almost-Utopian world,Kate and Ben fall in love. London,1593. Kate wakes as Emilia,mistress to a nobleman and friend to a lowly court poet called Will. Afflicted by apocalyptic premonitions,she sets out to save the world. Each decision she makes as Emilia will change Kate's life with Ben forever.'Bewitchingly complex... Astonishing'Sarah Perry,author of The Essex Serpent'An electrifying novel of love,creativity and madness... Playful,tender and heart breaking'Guardian'Elegiac and genuinely,unbelievably moving... By the time I got to the end of it,I wanted to go back and read the beginning... You've got to read this book'Helen Lewis,BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review
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Publisher: Granta BooksISBN: 9781783784868Number of pages: 272Weight: 194 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
An electrifying novel of love,creativity and madness... playful,tender and heart breakingWhat a wonderful,strange,terrifying,brilliant novel this isExquisitely calibrated... miraculously skilful... immersively real... Like all dramas,it has a resolution,and one of such eye-popping metaphysical grandeur that I couldn't spoil it even if I wanted toA writer of immense imagination and talent... quite unlike any other book you'll pick up this yearRichly observed and engaging...(Newman) is a writer of wild imaginings... The Heavens swiftly upends all expectations with its speculative strangenessI love The Heavens... Elegiac and genuinely,unbelievably moving... by the time I got to the end of it,I wanted to go back and read the beginning... You've got to read this bookI tore through The Heavens and loved it... unique and brilliantI was bewitched by the ambition and charge of The Heavens,which is at once troubling and beautiful,emotionally resonant and fantastically strangeNewman (writes with) agility and aplombThe Heavens,shifting restlessly between worlds,gently encouraging Elizabethan England into eccentric New York,rolling everything into a dreamy,desperate new reality,is everything we expect from Sandra Newman. It's strange but focused,beautifully written and put together,dangerously benign,comic and clever,bright as a knifeReading Sandra Newman's The Heavens is like falling up a brilliant flight of stairs. Inventive and moving and surprising on every level,it's a novel that doesn't just play with time and history and certainty: it turns those things inside out. I've been haunted by its characters and ideas ever since I reluctantly finished itEvery one of The Heavens'pages feels like that first shuddering spark of attraction...quick,flirtatiousThe writing is so sleek and the pace is so nimble,nothing is belaboured... a delightful literary bon bon that really took me away,so transfixingAstute,mesmeric and quite alarming,The Heavens is absolutely captivatingReally thought-provokingWonderfully intriguing... thoughtful (and) gripping
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