One Day meets The Time Traveler's Wife in this spellbinding, magical debut novel about love, loss, hope and heartbreak that shows us that the world can be as desolate or as beautiful as the comets that pass overhead.
Helen Sedgwick was a research scientist working in the field of biophysics before writing her debut novel, The Comet Seekers. She has an MLitt in Creative Writing from Glasgow University and a PhD in Physics from Edinburgh University, and has received a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. Having grown up in London, she now lives in the Scottish Highlands. The Growing Season is her second novel.
A magical debut…a gorgeous novel that should resonate with fans of
Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveller’s Wife… A breathtaking tale
full of love, hope and heartbreak. You’ll be utterly captivated
from the first page
*Elle*
Beautiful, sad, moving, fascinating and original. I loved it.
*Marian Keyes*
A stellar love story
*Glamour, Book of the Year*
Exquisitely layered, thrilling novel, which leaps across centuries
and continents to delve into the role of destiny and the
elusiveness of perception and memory.
*New York Times*
A spellbinding tale of love and loss, aglimmer with passion and
melancholy.
*Sunday Express, S Magazine*
Beautiful, haunting.
*The Pool*
A beautifully imagined and original conceit…. There is no escaping
the undeniable artistry of this book, a clever triumvirate of love,
ghosts and time-travel.
*I*
A beautiful love story.
*Love it*
Her laconic tone and measured prose belie the novel’s dramatic
content… Sedgwick is a highly evocative writer who makes excellent
use of nature to showcase her themes… Her charming debut maps the
world’s big questions on an even larger plane’
*Irish Times*
A fluid narrative voice, pointedly lyrical. And, as in the work of
contemporary fabulists like Kelly Link, Helen Oyeyemi and Audrey
Niffenegger, the real intersects matter-of-factly with the
supernatural…Many of this novel’s pleasures have to do with teasing
out the implications of Sedgwick’s intricate pattern…This web of
associations, spun by recurring images and figures, lends a
different spin to the idea of a love that’s meant to be.
*New York Times Book Review*
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