The Comet Seekers: A Novel A timeless love story for readers of The Miniaturist and The Time Traveler’s Wife The New York Times calls The Comet Seekers “[an] exquisitely layered, thrilling novel, which leaps across centuries and continents to delve into the role of destiny and the elusiveness of perception and memory.” In Helen Sedgwick’s mesmerizing novel, two strangers—Róisín and François—find themselves connected by the passing of the great comets overhead and haunted by the ancestors who bind them together. The story loops back through time, giving glimpses of Róisín’s and François’s lives only when a comet is visible in the skies above, then shifting even further into the past to reveal the lives of their families. Sedgwick deftly flips the distance on its head to show how time and space can connect strangers, treating us to a story of lost love and ghostly companions, astronomy and magical realism. In this stunning debut, Sedgwick binds these seemingly disparate threads into a fully fleshed masterpiece. |
