Beautyland

Meet Adina: a woman who has never felt at home on Earth*** A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR, JUST LANDED IN THE UK ***'One of the best books I have read this year KALIANE BRADLEY, Guardian'As tender as it is witty and perceptive' SPECTATOR'I do not know how my life would be if I hadn't read this book' *Reader review*Born at the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space, Adina is a baby of unusual perception. Tiny and jaundiced, she reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognises she is different, not least because of her strange knowledge of a faraway planet. Then a fax machine arrives at home. Her mission is clear: she must report on the oddities of humankind.As Adina grows up, she dispatches transmissions on the terrors and delights of human existence. But then she starts to wonder. Is there a chance there are others like her out there?Adina sees our world differently. And her gentle, perceptive and funny observations offer a quietly joyful new view of life on Earth, the challenge of knowing ourselves and the miracle of finding our people in this vast universe. A remarkable funny-sad novel New York Times'I loved this idiosyncratic, funny and wise novel' LAILA LALAMI, author of The Dream Hotel'Joyous and expansive and wonderfully funny' DAISY JOHNSON, author of Fen A book that I will recommend to people for the rest of my life DAKOTA JOHNSON