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Beschreibung
BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
'Mesmerising' Sunday Times
'Magnificent' Guardian
'Monumental' The Telegraph
Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's first life forms - what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings.
Her discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space agency. Drawn deeper into the agency's work, she learns that the Atlantic trench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding. Leigh knows that to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining mother and her younger sister, and faces an impossible choice: to remain with her family, or to embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos.
'Utterly compelling' The Times, Books of the Year
'Profound and thrilling' New Statesman, Books of the Year
'A far-reaching epic' Financial Times, Books of the Year
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DNF at ~100 pages. Definitely not my cup of tea. I just couldn't get into the story; the writing style simply didn't grab my attention. Even though the initial idea sounded really cool, the overall plot felt incredibly boring. What I found particularly frustrating was how the book seemed to handle some hefty topics, yet it simultaneously completely lacked depth and grounding for me. I struggled immensely to form any real emotional connection with the main character. It just didn't feel authentic.
Beschreibung
BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
'Mesmerising' Sunday Times
'Magnificent' Guardian
'Monumental' The Telegraph
Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's first life forms - what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings.
Her discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space agency. Drawn deeper into the agency's work, she learns that the Atlantic trench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding. Leigh knows that to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining mother and her younger sister, and faces an impossible choice: to remain with her family, or to embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos.
'Utterly compelling' The Times, Books of the Year
'Profound and thrilling' New Statesman, Books of the Year
'A far-reaching epic' Financial Times, Books of the Year
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
DNF at ~100 pages. Definitely not my cup of tea. I just couldn't get into the story; the writing style simply didn't grab my attention. Even though the initial idea sounded really cool, the overall plot felt incredibly boring. What I found particularly frustrating was how the book seemed to handle some hefty topics, yet it simultaneously completely lacked depth and grounding for me. I struggled immensely to form any real emotional connection with the main character. It just didn't feel authentic.