The Heavens

An electrifying novel of love, creativity and madness... playful, tender and heart breaking * Guardian * What a wonderful, strange, terrifying, brilliant novel this is -- Kamila Shamsie Exquisitely calibrated... miraculously skilful... immersively real... Like all dramas, it has a resolution, and one of such eye-popping metaphysical grandeur that I couldn't spoil it even if I wanted to -- Paraic O'Donnell * Irish Times * A writer of immense imagination and talent... quite unlike any other book you'll pick up this year -- Best New Books for May 2019 * Stylist * Richly observed and engaging... [Newman] is a writer of wild imaginings... The Heavens swiftly upends all expectations with its speculative strangeness * Sunday Times * I love The Heavens... Elegiac and genuinely, unbelievably moving... by the time I got to the end of it, I wanted to go back and read the beginning... You've got to read this book -- Helen Lewis * BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review * I tore through The Heavens and loved it... unique and brilliant -- Adam Foulds, author * The Quickening Maze * I was bewitched by the ambition and charge of The Heavens, which is at once troubling and beautiful, emotionally resonant and fantastically strange -- Olivia Laing, author of * Crudo * Newman [writes with] agility and aplomb * TLS * The Heavens, shifting restlessly between worlds, gently encouraging Elizabethan England into eccentric New York, rolling everything into a dreamy, desperate new reality, is everything we expect from Sandra Newman. It's strange but focused, beautifully written and put together, dangerously benign, comic and clever, bright as a knife -- M. John Harrison, author * Light * Reading Sandra Newman's The Heavens is like falling up a brilliant flight of stairs. Inventive and moving and surprising on every level, it's a novel that doesn't just play with time and history and certainty: it turns those things inside out. I've been haunted by its characters and ideas ever since I reluctantly finished it -- Elizabeth McCracken, author * Thunderstruck & Other Stories * Every one of The Heavens' pages feels like that first shuddering spark of attraction...quick, flirtatious * Dazed * The writing is so sleek and the pace is so nimble, nothing is belaboured... a delightful literary bon bon that really took me away, so transfixing -- Katie Puckrik * BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review * Astute, mesmeric and quite alarming, The Heavens is absolutely captivating * Press Association * Really thought-provoking -- The Best Books to Read This May * Red Magazine * Wonderfully intriguing... thoughtful [and] gripping * Observer *

Sandra Newman is the author of three previous novels; The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done, (shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award), Cake and The Country of Ice Cream Star (longlisted for the Bailey's Prize for Women's Literature). She co-authored the hugely successful How Not to Write a Novel. She has also written The Western Lit Survival Kit, Read This Next, and a memoir, Changeling. She lives in New York.