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The Heavens
Sandra Newman
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Description for The Heavens
Paperback.
'What a wonderful, strange, terrifying, brilliant novel this is' Kamila Shamsie AS 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
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Granta
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783784868
SKU
9781783784868
Shipping Time
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99-2
About Sandra Newman
Sandra Newman is the author of three previous novels; The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done, (shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award), Cake and The Country of Ice Cream Star (longlisted for the Bailey's Prize for Women's Literature). She co-authored the hugely successful How Not to Write a Novel. She has also written The Western Lit Survival Kit, Read This Next, and a memoir, Changeling. She lives in New York.
Reviews for The Heavens
An electrifying novel of love, creativity and madness... playful, tender and heart breaking
Guardian
What a wonderful, strange, terrifying, brilliant novel this is
Kamila Shamsie Exquisitely 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 to
Paraic O'Donnell
Irish Times
A writer of immense imagination and talent... quite unlike any other book you'll pick up this year
‘Best New Books for May 2019’
Stylist
Richly observed and engaging... [Newman] is a writer of wild imaginings... The Heavens swiftly upends all expectations with its speculative strangeness
Sunday Times
I 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 book
Helen Lewis
BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review
I tore through The Heavens and loved it... unique and brilliant
Adam Foulds, author
The Quickening Maze
I was bewitched by the ambition and charge of The Heavens, which is at once troubling and beautiful, emotionally resonant and fantastically strange
Olivia Laing, author of
Crudo
Newman [writes with] agility and aplomb
TLS
The 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 knife
M. John Harrison, author
Light
Reading 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 it
Elizabeth McCracken, author
Thunderstruck & Other Stories
Every one of The Heavens' pages feels like that first shuddering spark of attraction...quick, flirtatious
Dazed
The writing is so sleek and the pace is so nimble, nothing is belaboured... a delightful literary bon bon that really took me away, so transfixing
Katie Puckrik
BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review
Astute, mesmeric and quite alarming, The Heavens is absolutely captivating
Press Association
Really thought-provoking
‘The Best Books to Read This May’
Red Magazine
Wonderfully intriguing... thoughtful [and] gripping
Observer
Guardian
What a wonderful, strange, terrifying, brilliant novel this is
Kamila Shamsie Exquisitely 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 to
Paraic O'Donnell
Irish Times
A writer of immense imagination and talent... quite unlike any other book you'll pick up this year
‘Best New Books for May 2019’
Stylist
Richly observed and engaging... [Newman] is a writer of wild imaginings... The Heavens swiftly upends all expectations with its speculative strangeness
Sunday Times
I 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 book
Helen Lewis
BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review
I tore through The Heavens and loved it... unique and brilliant
Adam Foulds, author
The Quickening Maze
I was bewitched by the ambition and charge of The Heavens, which is at once troubling and beautiful, emotionally resonant and fantastically strange
Olivia Laing, author of
Crudo
Newman [writes with] agility and aplomb
TLS
The 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 knife
M. John Harrison, author
Light
Reading 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 it
Elizabeth McCracken, author
Thunderstruck & Other Stories
Every one of The Heavens' pages feels like that first shuddering spark of attraction...quick, flirtatious
Dazed
The writing is so sleek and the pace is so nimble, nothing is belaboured... a delightful literary bon bon that really took me away, so transfixing
Katie Puckrik
BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review
Astute, mesmeric and quite alarming, The Heavens is absolutely captivating
Press Association
Really thought-provoking
‘The Best Books to Read This May’
Red Magazine
Wonderfully intriguing... thoughtful [and] gripping
Observer