NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM 'THE MIDNIGHT SKY' DIRECTED BY GEORGE CLOONEY STARRING FELICITY
JONES AND GEORGE CLOONEY ''A remarkable and gifted debut' Colson Whitehead author of The
Underground Railroad'Fans of Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven and Kim Stanley Robinson's
Aurora will appreciate the Brooks-Dalton's exquisite exploration of relationships' Washington
PostThere is a particular beauty in silence in being cut off from the world. Augustine a
brilliant ageing scientist is consumed by the stars. He has spent his entire life searching
for the origins of time itself. He has now been left alone on a remote research base in the
Arctic circle all communication with the outside world broken down. But then he discovers a
mysterious child Iris who must have hidden herself away when the last of his colleagues
departed. Sully is a divorced mother. She is also an astronaut currently aboard The Aether on
a return flight from Jupiter. This is the culmination of her career the very reason for all
the sacrifices she has made - the daughter she left behind the marriage she couldn't save.
When all communication goes silent she is left wondering what she will be returning
to.Marooned in the vast silence of space and the achingly beautiful sweep of the Arctic both
Augustine and Sully begin to understand their place in the world and what gives their life
meaning. For only in the silence can we find out who we truly are.
