# Celestial Lights

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- Book: [Celestial Lights](https://www.bookquiver.com/cecile-pin/celestial-lights) ([Celestial Lights.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/cecile-pin/celestial-lights.md))
- Authors: [Cecile Pin](https://www.bookquiver.com/cecile-pin)
- Publisher: Fourth Estate
- ISBN: 978-00-0870-639-5
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2026-03-26
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

A beautiful, heartbreaking novel about ambition, love and space from the award-winning author of the Women’s Prize longlisted Wandering Souls. 28 January, 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 uncharted 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 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.