Beautyland

<p><b>*** THE US WORD-OF-MOUTH SENSATION, JUST LANDED IN THE UK ***</b><br><br>‘One of the best books I have read this year’ <b>KALIANE BRADLEY, <i>Guardian</i> </b><br>‘A remarkable funny-sad novel’ <b><i>New York Times </i><br><br>Meet Adina: a woman who has never felt at home on Earth </b><br><br>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.<br><br>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?<br><br>Adina sees our world differently. And her gentle, perceptive – and funny – observations offer a quietly joyful view of life on Earth, the challenge of knowing ourselves and the miracle of finding our people in this vast universe.<br><br>‘<i>Beautyland</i> is a miracle. I’ll be rereading it forever’ <b>KAVEH AKBAR </b><br>‘Beautiful and hilarious and transcendent . . . Bertino is an other-worldly talent’ <b>TOMMY ORANGE </b><br>‘A book that I will recommend to people for the rest of my life’ <b>DAKOTA JOHNSON</b></p>