Atmosphere 9781804941430 Paperback

THE No.1SUNDAY TIMESANDNEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLERFrom the author ofThe Seven Husbands of Evelyn HugoandDaisy Jones & The Six, an epic novel about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits, set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program.’Thrilling … heartbreaking … uplifting. … I loved it’KRISTIN HANNAH, bestselling author ofThe Women’A richly drawn page-turner’OBSERVERThe queen of escapist fictionSUNDAY TELEGRAPH———Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember.Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances.That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASAs space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training to be an astronaut at Houston’s Johnson Space Centre, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates.As the new astronauts prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined and begins to question everything she believes about her place in the observable universe.Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant.Atmosphereis a soaring story about the transformative power of love – this time among the stars.READERS ARE SAYING…’Taylor Jenkins Reid isthe master of a really great love story’5* Reader review’So emotionalby the end thatI could hardly speak’5* Reader reviewBeautiful and movingI could not put this book down5* Reader reviewMade me laughandmoved me to tears, what more could you ask for? 5* Reader reviewEmotional, captivating, andwonderfully written, Atmosphere is one of those rare books that stays with you long after youve finished the final page. 5* Reader reviewPraise forAtmosphere:’Is there a popular fiction writer alive who conveys falling in love better than Taylor Jenkins Reid?’DAILY MAIL’NASA? Space missions? The 80s? This is a collection of all the things I love. … Thrilling’ANDY WEIR, author ofProject Hail MaryandThe Martian’Packs a hefty emotional punch’MAIL ON SUNDAYAn empowering and out of this world love storyPEOPLE’Beautifully written, immersive’THE TIMES’Our favourite TJR novel yet’COSMOPOLITAN’I absolutely adored this’BRYONY GORDON’Breathtaking’HEAT’Unputdownable’GRAZIA