Sea of Tranquility

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What to expect

The instant Sunday Times bestseller, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel investigates the idea of parallel worlds and possibilities, and plays with the very line along which time should run.

'So wise, so graceful, so rich' - Naomi Alderman, author of The Power
'Ingenious' - Guardian

Lives separated by time and space have collided, and an exiled Englishman, a writer trapped far from home, and a girl destined to die too young, have each glimpsed a world that is not their own. Travelling through the centuries, between colonies on the moon and an ever-changing Earth, together their lives will solve a mystery that will make you question everything you thought you knew to be true.

From the award-winning author of Station Eleven.

A Best Book of 2022 - Oprah Daily, Barack Obama, Glamour, LA Times
'Brilliant and fiercely original' - Observer
'One of her finest novels' - New York Times
'Transcendent' - Wall Street Journal

Critics Review

  • It is heaven to be immersed in the waters of Mandel’s imagination, she is always able to see past the present moment to the futures it contains and the past that informed it. Her perspective is so wise, so graceful, so rich and – despite everything – comforting. I loved Sea of Tranquility

    Naomi Alderman, Women's Prize-winning author of The Power

  • A spiralling, transportive triumph of storytelling – sci-fi with soul

    Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies

  • An ambitious time-travelling panorama of pandemics and parallel worlds

    Guardian

  • Even more boldly imagined than Station Eleven. Exciting to read, relevant, and satisfying.

    Kirkus

  • Readers of Mandel’s Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel will not be disappointed by her latest, a generous and elegant novel about art and family and time travel

    LitHub

  • Ingenious . . . Hugely ambitious in scope, yet also intimate and written with a graceful and beguiling fluency . . . It conveys the vertiginous sense of a reality that transcends a single existence and feels simultaneously poignant, celebratory and uncanny

    Guardian

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