Celestial Lights

Celestial LightsA beautiful, heartbreaking novel about ambition, love, and space from the award winning author of Wandering Souls January 28, 1986: Soon after launch, the Challenger shuttle falls out of the sky and into the sea. At the same time, Oliver Ines is born. Celestial Lights is his story. Ollie spends his childhood in an English village where his bedroom is covered in glow in the dark wallpaper bearing the planets and stars. Decades later, he has become one

owls are often a symbol of wisdom

But this is no ordinary book…

Winner of the Prix Polar Award for Best International Novel

Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART-- and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room

As you turn each page

What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians—it is a place of lost cities and seas

Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London

” people say

”—Vanity Fair

they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted

This story will stay with me for a very

Let your imagination run wild in the leafy treetop canopy or find yourself drawn to the delicate world of sensational blossoms and tropical plants below