Samantha Harvey: Orbital

A very short book this time (144 pages 😮) since we have just two weeks in which to read it before our irregularly scheduled book club on Tuesday 16th December 😃

"Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled… We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise in regimented routines to prevent atrophying muscles; we witness them form bonds that will stand between them and utter solitude."