Helen Sedgwickin romaanin päähenkilö tuntuu olevan pikemminkin taivaankansi ja sen tapahtumat kuin maan pinnalla taivaalla tähyilevät ihmiset: Comet seekers (Harvill Secker, 2016; ISBN 978-1-9107-0173-7).
Romaani koostuu katkelmista eri aikakausilta, ja vaikka teksti soljuu näppärästi eteenpäin, tuntui kuin romaani olisi kirjoitettu jollakin sellaisella aaltopituudella josta en saanut kiinni, tarinan tarkoitus jäi tavoittamattomiin, ja niinpä lukeminen jäi kesken.
Roisin and Francois first meet in the snowy white expanse of Antarctica. And everything changes. While Roisin grew up in a tiny village in Ireland, ablaze with a passion for science and the skies and for all there is to discover about the world, Francois was raised by his beautiful young mother, who dreamt of new worlds but was unable to turn her back on her past. As we loop back through their lives, glimpsing each of them only when a comet is visible in the skies above, we see how their paths cross as they come closer and closer to this moment. Theirs are stories filled with love and hope and heartbreak, that show how strangers can be connected and ghosts can be real, and the world can be as lonely or as beautiful as the comets themselves.
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