Samantha Harvey (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)

Samantha Harvey (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
Festival Marquee
Sunday 29 September, 9.45am
£10

Betty Trask Prize-winner, Samantha Harvey, will be in conversation with journalist and broadcaster, Rosie Goldsmith, discussing her latest novel Orbital.

Even without the deft maths behind its construction, Orbital is as far-reaching as it is svelte. By a narrative sleight of hand, Samantha gathers into amazingly few pages the thoughts of six international astronauts orbiting the earth in a space station. Their earthly lives are threaded through their experiences of sixteen sunrises and sunsets, while the distant marks of our precarious civilization far below come to seem impossibly fragile. As profound as it is poetic, Orbital is the perfect novel for people who think they’ve outgrown fiction.