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Samantha Harvey: Orbital

When

Friday 23 May from 6pm to 7pm

Cost

Adult: From $40.00Concession: From $35.00

On the International Space Station, a team of astronauts watch our big blue planet as it silently turns beneath them. 

This 2024 Booker Prize–winning novel is largely observations of the astronauts as they collect data and record small, slow changes in their environment and their own bodies. Yet Samantha Harvey’s prose is expansive, delicately encompassing life and death, fragility and strength, hope and fear in concentric circles of human life.

Hear Samantha discuss the profundity of this meditative novel.

Samantha Harvey appears thanks to the support of Fiona and Matthew Playfair.

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