Orbital by Samantha Harvey · Audiobook preview

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Orbital
Authored by Samantha Harvey
Narrated by Sarah Naudi

0:00 Intro
0:03 Orbital
0:24 Orbit minus 1
5:40 Orbit 1, ascending
10:24 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

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*WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024*

Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft contemplating the world below

A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day.

Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction.

The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part - or protective - of it. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?

'Beautiful in every aspect'
SARAH MOSS, author of Summerwater

'One of the most beautiful novels I have read in a very long time'
MARK HADDON, author of The Porpoise

'One of the UK's most exquisite stylists'
GUARDIAN

‘Awe-inspiring’
Max Porter

©2023 Samantha Harvey (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Samantha Harvey is the author of the novels Orbital, The Wilderness, All is Song, Dear Thief and The Western Wind and a work of non-fiction, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping. Orbital was the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, and her other work has been shortlisted for the James Tait Black Award, the Women's Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the Walter Scott Prize. The Wilderness was awarded the Betty Trask Prize. She is a tutor on the MA course in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

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Language: English
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Published on: November 2, 2023
ISBN: 9781529934090
Duration: 5 hr, 8 min
Genres: Fiction / General, Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Nature & the Environment, Fiction / Psychological, Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Exploration