The Wanderers

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As they look to the stars what are they missing back home? ' Phenomenal A transcendent journey into the mysteries of space & self Howrey's expansive vision left me awestruck' RUTH OZEKI author of A Tale for the Time Being The best of Helen Kane exists in space If she doesn't go back up she'll be consigned to a lesser version of herself on a planet that has also seen better days Helen is an experienced astronaut with a NASA position & a struggling grown-up daughter who needs her but when at fifty-three she is offered a place on the training programme for the first mission to Mars the most realistic simulation ever she cannot refuse a last chance to walk among the stars Her fellow astronauts are Sergei a gruff Russian whose teenage sons are less mysterious to him than they'd like to think; & Yoshi who wants to prove himself worthy of the wife he has drifted apart from The three will be enclosed for months in a tiny craft while outside their loved ones negotiate everyday life on Earth How far will the wanderers travel in the pursuit of endeavour & what will it be like to come home? Station Eleven meets The Martian in this brilliantly inventive & sharply observed novel of ambition endeavour & family ' An astounding insightful exhilarating ride' HELEN SEDGWICK author of The Comet Seekers 'A stealthily brilliant novel A distinct shimmering vision of who we are at once simple gorgeous & profoundly moving' PETER NICHOLS author of The Rocks