Celestial Lights

A beautiful, heartbreaking novel about ambition, love and space from the award-winning author of the Women''s Prize longlisted Wandering Souls. January 28, 1986: moments after launch, the Challenger shuttle falls from the sky. At the same time, in a small English village, Oliver Ines is born. Ollie spends his childhood in a bedroom covered in glow-in-the-dark wallpaper, bearing the planets and stars. Decades later, he has become one of the most renowned astronauts of his time. When an enterprising billionaire approaches him to lead a landmark, ten-year mission to the distant moon, Europa, Ollie cannot resist the call of history. As the mission advances deeper into unchartered territory, Ollie finds himself retreating into the past: his school days and years in the navy, relationships found and lost, becoming a husband and father. But will the world he remembers still be waiting for him, ten years later, when he returns? Celestial Lights is a breathtaking story of fate, love, and sacrifice, that questions what we owe ourselves and our loved ones, when our ambitions and loyalties collide.

About the author

Cecile Pin

Product details

• Authors: Cecile Pin
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 26.03.2026
• EAN: 9780008706395
• ISBN: 978-0-00-870639-5
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 222 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; NON-CLASSIFIABLE, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Exploration, The Solar System, Science fiction: space exploration, Space, planets and extraterrestrial locations, Stationery and miscellaneous items, Miscellaneous items, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Narrative theme: love / relationships, FICTION / Romance / Friends to Lovers, Romance: friends to lovers