I started to worry, around halfway through this book, that it wasn’t at all about the voyage to another planet as I’d been led to believe. But, less than a few chapters later, realised it no longer mattered.

It is, indeed, about the journey, but it takes in the genuine impact and emotional struggles required to get there.

Temi Oh perfectly rounds and moulds the young characters in what can seem, at a cursory glance, a little like a YA novel. But the necessity for this becomes starkly apparent when you reach the last section of the book.

I can’t say anything else without spoiling it. Read it but try to suspend your expectations, as even the cover is a little misleading, or open to misinterpretation, if you don’t.

Oh is a fantastic and accomplished new writer and I can’t wait to see what else comes from her heart and mind.