Range

<p><b>'A rebellious celebration of the singularity, and mystery of humankind. We need more fiction like Nors's' CHARLOTTE WOOD, <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i></b></p><p><b>From the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of <i>Mirror, Shoulder, Signal</i>.</b></p><p>Celebrated professor of astrophysics, Gunn Haven, has often found people stranger and more frightening than space. Back in the rural landscape of her childhood, she sets out with a thermos of coffee in her rucksack and a telescope trained on the night sky, to study celestial bodies, only to find herself pulled back into earthly lives.</p><p>Glowing orbs drift down her garden path, revealing themselves as inquisitive neighbours. Her phone buzzes not with satellite signals, but with messages from her much-missed young protégée. And then there is the Gable Woman: a local adversary, enraged after catching Gunn on private property, whose determination to settle the score grows more menacing by the day.</p><p>Atmospheric and intellectually expansive, <i>Range</i> explores the inexorable forces that at once draw us towards one another, and send us spinning away.</p><b>PRAISE FOR DORTHE NORS:</b></p><p>'Nors' writing creeps up on you, and then overwhelms with its emotional power. She is a master' <b>CHRIS KRAUS</b></p><p>'Reading Nors's work, one is reminded of the thrills and dangers of living' <b>YIYUN LI</b></p><p>'A singular prose stylist. . . she is such a great companion, honest and curious and surprising' <b>MAX PORTER</b></p><p>'It's a joy to be in the hands of a writer as funny and playful with form as Dorthe Nors' <b>LAUREN GROFF</b></p><p>'A writer of moments - quiet, raw portraits of existential meditation' <b><i>THE PARIS REVIEW</b></i></p><p>'A brilliant novel that is as intellectually vast as it is deeply rooted in the everyday experience of being human'<b><i>KIRKUS</i></b></p>