- Published: 05/11/2020
- ISBN: 9781783784868
- Granta Books
- 272 pages
The Heavens
Sandra Newman
A STORY OF LOVE COMPLICATED BY TIME TRAVEL
‘What a wonderful, strange, terrifying, brilliant novel this is’ Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire
New York, 2000.
Kate and Ben meet at a party and immediately fall in love. It is the first year of the new millennium, the first year without a war anywhere in the world. 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. Kate falls asleep, knowing that she is loved.
London, 1593.
Kate wakes as Emilia – the mistress of a nobleman – and finds the plague at her door. Afflicted by premonitions of a burnt and lifeless city, she sets out to save the world. Each decision she makes will change her life with Ben forever.
A story of love and alternate universes, madness and time travel, The Heavens is a dream bound up in a strange awakening; it is a bewitching novel of what we have lost, and what we might yet be able to save.
£8.99
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
From the Same Author
The Men
Sandra Newman
In a single moment, in every part of the world, every person with an Y chromosome vanishes: lovers, children, parents – even foetuses from the womb.
Jane Pearson wakes on a mountainside the next morning to find her husband and son missing from their tent. Frantic and grieving, she sets out to find the one person she thinks can help – Evangelyne Moreau, the brilliant, charismatic leader of the Commensalist Party of America, whose heart she broke many years before.
While Jane searches for those she has lost, a radically different society emerges, one that seems – at first – to be suddenly, blissfully safer than what came before. And then The Men appears online: uncanny video footage that shows the missing being herded through bizarre, otherworldly landscapes. Is it a hoax, or could The Men hold the key to bringing back those who were lost? And if so, what might you give up to save the world?
From the author of The Heavens, The Men is a gripping, beautiful, and disquieting novel of impossible sacrifices that asks: what might we be prepared to give up to create a better world?
Sandra Newman on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir
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Horse
Sandra Newman
‘It was a rescue horse, but a horse.’
Memoir by Sandra Newman.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
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In Conversation | The Online Edition
Interview
Sandra Newman
‘While you’re still arguing you still have hope.’