04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Daisy Jones & the Six author tells the story of a woman chosen to train as an astronaut in 1980, and had me hooked from the off
Fiction
Taylor Jenkins Reid is probably best known for Daisy Jones & the Six, which was an international bestseller, won numerous awards and became a successful TV series.
Atmosphere tells the story of Joan Goodwin, a professor of astrophysics, who is chosen to train as an astronaut in 1980. She loves the stars, 'to look up at the night-time sky is to become a part of a long line of people throughout human history who looked above at the same set of stars'.