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A review by wrdtrvlr
The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick
4.0
This is a beautiful book about things and people that leave and reappear, or seem to reappear.
The clever analogy of the comet's orbit is also in the details. Sedgwick writes to satisfy a scientific or practical mind. Here's an example: When Roisin asserts to Francois that people can't be satisfied with a meaningful relationship with just one person and says, "You need more. Everyone needs more." Sedgwick's outer world agrees, "There is a gust of wind that makes the taut fabric of the tent resonate like a string; ripple with harmonics."
It took me a while to allow the snippets of story to piece together into a novel. I'm glad I gave the author the time she needed. After all, comets take long journeys before they come round right.
The clever analogy of the comet's orbit is also in the details. Sedgwick writes to satisfy a scientific or practical mind. Here's an example: When Roisin asserts to Francois that people can't be satisfied with a meaningful relationship with just one person and says, "You need more. Everyone needs more." Sedgwick's outer world agrees, "There is a gust of wind that makes the taut fabric of the tent resonate like a string; ripple with harmonics."
It took me a while to allow the snippets of story to piece together into a novel. I'm glad I gave the author the time she needed. After all, comets take long journeys before they come round right.