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16 April 2026
7:30 pm to 8:27 pm
All ages welcome
£8.00
luma.com/CecilePin
Publishing
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Simply Books
In conversation with a leading host, Cecile will delve into her writing process and how she crafts her characters, before taking your questions.
Afterwards, she’ll be signing copies of her brand new book, Celestial Lights.
Every Book and Ticket comes with a hardback copy of Celestial Lights.
About the Book: Celestial Lights
January 28, 1986: moments after launch, the Challenger shuttle falls from the sky. At the same time, in a small English village, Oliver Ines is born.
Ollie spends his childhood in a bedroom covered in glow-in-the-dark wallpaper, bearing the planets and stars. Decades later, he has become one of the most renowned astronauts of his time. When an enterprising billionaire approaches him to lead a landmark, ten-year mission to the distant moon, Europa, Ollie cannot resist the call of history.
As the mission advances deeper into uncharted territory, Ollie finds himself retreating into the past: his school days and years in the navy, relationships found and lost, becoming a husband and father. But will the world he remembers still be waiting for him, ten years later, when he returns?
Celestial Lights is a breathtaking story of fate, love, and sacrifice that questions what we owe ourselves and our loved ones, when our ambitions and loyalties collide.
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