Marian Keyes’s engaging tale of fresh starts and old flames; a kaleidoscopic family drama spanning six decades; and an absorbing study of ancient rocks from space.
As she visits meteorite landing sites across the globe, the author meets people who have an intimate connection to these billion-year-old objects: those who study them, collect them (at vast expense), have found them, or are simply fascinated by them.
Anna Walsh swaps her high-flying PR job in New York for a small Irish coastal town to help her friend Brigit launch a luxury wellness centre against local opposition.
Keyes’s brilliance is in tackling thorny issues – the invisibility of fortysomething women, perimenopause, bereavement, female desire – with empathy and wit, in engaging prose.
Chen’s debut novel tells the story of two families against the backdrop of Chinese history over six decades.
