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In a breathtakingly vivid and emotionally gripping debut novel, one woman must confront the emptiness in the universe - and in her own heart - when a devastating virus reduces most of humanity to dust and memories. All Jamie Allenby ever wanted was space. Even though she wasn't forced to emigrate from Earth, she willingly left the overpopulated, claustrophobic planet. And when a long relationship devolved into silence and suffocating sadness, she found work on a frontier world on the edges of civilization. Then the virus hit... Now Jamie finds herself dreadfully alone, with all that's left of the dead. Until a garbled message from Earth gives her hope that someone from her past might still be alive. Soon Jamie finds other survivors, and their ragtag group will travel through the vast reaches of space, drawn to the promise of a new beginning on Earth. But their dream will pit them against those desperately clinging to the old ways. And Jamie's own journey home will help her close the distance between who she has become and who she is meant to be...
About the Author
Anne Corlett is originally from the north-east, but sort of slid diagonally down the map, and now lives near Bath with her partner and three young sons.A criminal solicitor by profession, Anne returned to writing in 2012 after a long hiatus. She now writes full time (or as full time as three children will allow) and her articles and short stories have been published in various magazines and anthologies.Anne has won, placed in or been shortlisted for various awards, including the Bristol Short Story Prize, the Bath Short Story Award and the HE Bates Prize, The Space Between the Stars was written during an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
