Celestial Lights

Celestial Lights - Hardcover

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Celestial Lights - Hardcover

Celestial Lights - Hardcover

by Cecile Pin
$26.99
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Book Overview

One of Vogue's Best Books of 2026

A 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 of the most renowned astronauts of his time. When an enterprising billionaire taps him to lead a landmark mission to the distant moon Europa, Ollie makes a choice that will send his whole world spinning.

As the mission advances deeper into unchartered territory, Ollie finds himself retreating into the past: his university days in London 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?

A portrait of a complicated man and a breathtaking tale of memory, personal choices, and the relationships that define us, Celestial Lights is an unforgettable story that questions what we owe ourselves and our loved ones when our ambitions and loyalties collide.
ISBN9781250863492
Author Cecile Pin
PublisherHenry Holt & Company
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedMarch 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages256
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Cecile Pin

Cecile Pin is a London-based writer. Wandering Souls, her first novel, was long-listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal, the Prix Femina Étranger, and was short-listed for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize. She has won the Fragonard Prize for Foreign Literature, a Somerset Maugham Award, and a London Writers' Award. In 2025, she was selected as one of Forbes' 30 Under 30 Europe.

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