{"product_id":"9781443449557","title":"The Comet Seekers : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Comet Seekers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Helen Sedgwick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA timeless love story and \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ea magical, intoxicating debut for readers of \u003cem\u003eThe Miniaturist \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Time Traveler's Wife\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a remote research base in Antarctica to witch burnings in Bayeux, \u003cem\u003eThe Comet Seekers\u003c\/em\u003e is a romantic, mesmerizing love story about two strangers who find themselves connected by the passing of the great comets overhead and haunted by the ancestors who bind them together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoisin and François are strangers—or so they think—when they meet on the frozen ice sheets of Antarctica as Comet Giacobini fractures overhead. Both are compelled to explore the world but to do so both have left family behind. As we loop back through their lives, glimpsing each of them only when a comet is visible in the skies above, we see how their paths cross as they come closer and closer to this moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the story moves back through the centuries to reveal the lives of their ancestors—from an accused witch to a young woman desperately embroidering Halley’s Comet onto the Bayeux Tapestry—it shows how strangers can be connected and ghosts can be real, and how the way we choose to see the world can be as tragic or as beautiful as the comets themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“[An] exquisitely layered, thrilling novel, which leaps across centuries and continents to delve into the role of destiny and the elusiveness of perception and memory.”\u003cbr\u003e“Helen Sedgwick has written a first novel of remarkable grace, beauty and insight, in which a careful love of language meets an immense storytelling talent. I was moved and inspired by this book.”\u003cbr\u003e“Haunting and beautiful, \u003cem\u003eThe Comet Seekers\u003c\/em\u003e follows a constellation of lives from modern Antarctica to medieval England, all of them connected by an extraordinary mystery hidden deep in the past. A captivating story, deftly told, about those who are driven to explore, and those who must stay behind.”\u003cbr\u003e“Sedgwick is a highly evocative writer.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781443449557\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"HarperAvenue","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41091554574542,"sku":"9781443449557","price":17.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9781443449557.jpg?v=1649128832","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781443449557","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}