‘Sublimely funny and infinitely subtle, Light Years is pure delight.’
Daily Telegraph
‘In the tradition of the best romantic comedy.’
The Observer
Lottie Lucas is the luckiest person she knows. She has looks, money, three houses and a teenage son she adores … So why is her husband Harold walking out on her?
Lottie and Harold track each other across a bizarre mid-1980s Britain and a hot summer in Paris. As the year turns full circle – the time it takes light to travel six million million miles – the power of love is affirmed.
Light Years is also about zoos and the zodiac; the seasons and the stars; and how humans see the natural world. It is a novel about the possibilities of happiness, a surprising and beautiful contemporary love story.
‘Energetic and beguiling.’
Sunday Telegraph
‘This is so fine a novel, because so completely a planned and crafted one.’
TLS
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Maggie Gee was chosen as one of Granta’s ‘Best Young British Novelists’ in 1983. Since then she has published eight novels to great acclaim, including Grace, The Ice People and Light Years. Her last novel The White Family (Saqi) was shortlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize for Fiction and for the International Impac Dublin Literary Award 2004. She is the first woman Chair of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London.