One Day meets The Time Traveler's Wife in this spellbinding, magical debut novel about love, loss, hope and heartbreak that shows us that for each of us, the world can be as lonely or as beautiful as the comets that illuminate the skies above us.
Helen Sedgwick was a research scientist working in the field of biophysics before writing her debut novel, The Comet Seekers. She has an MLitt in Creative Writing from Glasgow University and a PhD in Physics from Edinburgh University, and has received a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. Having grown up in London, she now lives in the Scottish Highlands. The Growing Season is her second novel.
"A magical debut…a gorgeous novel that should resonate with fans of
Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveller’s Wife… A breathtaking tale
full of love, hope and heartbreak. You’ll be utterly captivated
from the first page"
*Elle*
"Beautiful, sad, moving, fascinating and original. I loved it."
*Marian Keyes*
"A stellar love story"
*Glamour, Book of the Year*
"Exquisitely layered, thrilling novel, which leaps across centuries
and continents to delve into the role of destiny and the
elusiveness of perception and memory."
*New York Times*
"Helen Sedgwick has written a first novel of remarkable grace,
beauty and insight, in which a careful love of language meets an
immense storytelling talent. I was moved and inspired by this
book"
*Joseph O'Connor, author of The Star of the Sea*
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