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
