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We Burned So Bright
- Author
- TJ Klune
- Narrator
- Kirt Graves
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 30 April 2026
- Run Time
- 6 hours 24 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
‘Like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket’ – V. E. Schwab, author of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, on The House in the Cerulean Sea
The world is ending in thirty days.
A wandering black hole is approaching Earth, and soon, everything will be gone. For husbands Don and Rodney, forty years of marriage suddenly feels like no time at all.
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The House in the Cerulean Sea comes a story about what we owe the people we love when time runs out. Don and Rodney are in a race against the clock, driving from Maine to Washington State to settle unfinished business before the sky breaks.
Along the way, they encounter a world choosing how to spend its final moments—from impromptu weddings and bright bonfires to those simply sharing a final meal. Under a kaleidoscope sky and a cracked moon, Don and Rodney must look back on a lifetime of highs and lows and ask the ultimate question: was our best good enough?
Critics Review
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An evocative rumination on mortality . . . brittle, elegiac, ironic, lit up with flashes of humour
Financial Times
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It would be no exaggeration to call this bold and unflinching book the ultimate road trip . . . Terrible and beautiful, haunting and humane: a masterpiece in miniature
Daily Mail
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I loved it. It is like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket. Simply perfect
V. E. Schwab, author of the Shades of Magic series on The House in the Cerulean Sea
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A modern fairy-tale about learning your true nature and what you love and will protect. It’s a beautiful book
Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse series that inspired HBO's True Blood, on The House in the Cerulean Sea
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Full of faith in the goodness of people . . . It broke my heart with its unflinching understanding that grief never goes away, never empties, only settles into the room of your soul like a strange souvenir
Cassandra Khaw, author of The Library at Hellebore on Under the Whispering Door
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A witty, wholesome fantasy that’s likely to cause heart-swelling
The Washington Post on The House in the Cerulean Sea
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TJ Klune is a master storyteller
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Details
- Author
- TJ Klune
- Narrator
- Kirt Graves
- Duration
- 6 hours 24 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 April 2026
- ISBN
- 9781035009466
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Contemporary fantasy / Low fantasy, Adventure / action fiction, Romance: wholesome / clean
Synopsis
‘Like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket’ – V. E. Schwab, author of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, on The House in the Cerulean SeaThe world is ending in thirty days.A wandering black hole is approaching Earth, and soon, everything will be gone. For husbands Don and Rodney, forty years of marriage suddenly feels like no time at all.One last road trip. One final chance to say goodbye.From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The House in the Cerulean Sea comes a story about what we owe the people we love when time runs out. Don and Rodney are in a race against the clock, driving from Maine to Washington State to settle unfinished business before the sky breaks.Is it enough to burn bright, even if nothing remains of the ashes?Along the way, they encounter a world choosing how to spend its final moments—from impromptu weddings and bright bonfires to those simply sharing a final meal. Under a kaleidoscope sky and a cracked moon, Don and Rodney must look back on a lifetime of highs and lows and ask the ultimate question: was our best good enough?A bittersweet, life-affirming masterpiece about love, legacy, and the beauty of a life well-lived.
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