Orbital is the winner of the Booker Prize 2024. Six astronauts rotate in the International Space Station. They are there to do vital work, but slowly they begin to wonder: what is life without Earth? What is Earth without humanity?
The Wilderness
Written by Samantha Harvey
- Longlisted
- The Man Booker Prize 2009
- Published by Jonathan Cape
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Samantha Harvey asks a question. What will Jake be able salvage from the wreckage of his mind: beauty, perhaps, the memory of love, or nothing at all?
It’s Jake’s birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early 60s, and he isn’t quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past. Jake has Alzheimer’s.
Samantha Harvey
Winner of the Booker Prize 2024 for Orbital. Samantha Harvey lives in the UK and is a tutor on the MA course in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University
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