In Ascension

In Ascension

Blackwell's Book of the Year 2023 & Arthur C. Clarke Award 2024

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Publisher's Synopsis

BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR

'Mesmerising' Sunday Times
'Magnificent' Guardian
'Monumental' The Telegraph

Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's first life forms - what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings.

Her discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space agency. Drawn deeper into the agency's work, she learns that the Atlantic trench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding. Leigh knows that to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining mother and her younger sister, and faces an impossible choice: to remain with her family, or to embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos.

Book information

ISBN: 9781838956271
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Pub date:
Edition: Blackwell's Book of the Year 2023 & Arthur C. Clarke Award 2024
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Sales rank: 5185
Number of pages: 496
Weight: 352g
Height: 129mm
Width: 199mm
Spine width: 34mm