The Heavens

by Sandra Newman

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Pub Date Feb 12 2019 | Archive Date Feb 12 2019

General Fiction (Adult)

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New York, late summer, 2000. A party in a spacious Manhattan apartment, hosted by a wealthy young activist. Dozens of idealistic twenty-somethings have impassioned conversations over takeout dumplings and champagne. The evening shines with the heady optimism of a progressive new millennium. A young man, Ben, meets a young woman, Kate—and they begin to fall in love.

Kate lives with her head in the clouds, so at first Ben isn’t that concerned when she tells him about the recurring dream she’s had since childhood. In the dream, she’s transported to the past, where she lives a second life as Emilia, the mistress of a nobleman in Elizabethan England. But for Kate, the dream becomes increasingly real, to the point where it threatens to overwhelm her life. And soon she’s waking from it to find the world changed—pictures on her wall she doesn’t recognize, new buildings in the neighborhood that have sprung up overnight. As Kate tries to make sense of what’s happening, Ben worries the woman he’s fallen in love with is losing her grip on reality.

Both intoxicating and thought-provoking, The Heavens is a powerful reminder of the consequences of our actions, a poignant testament to how the people we love are destined to change, and a masterful exploration of the power of dreams.

New York, late summer, 2000. A party in a spacious Manhattan apartment, hosted by a wealthy young activist. Dozens of idealistic twenty-somethings have impassioned conversations over takeout...

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EDITION	Other Format
ISBN	9780802129024
PRICE	$26.00 (USD)
PAGES	272

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Rosemary S, Librarian

Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy loses girl to a previous life? Kate and Ben meet and fall in love at a party in New York in 2000. She soon confides she’s had the same dream her entire life, that she was Emilia, mistress to a wealthy man in Elizabethan England. Strange, but he considers it part of her charm. Until things in her life begin to change, just a little bit initially, but then with increasing frequency and intensity. Is Kate losing her mind or is she really the reincarnation of a woman dead hundreds of years. This book isn’t like anything I’ve read before, it kept me glued to my kindle until the last page

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Lee S, Bookseller

The Heavens by Sandra Newman
I love this book. It’s a book about love, about dreams, about reincarnation. It’s a very interesting book and different from any other I’ve ever read. I like the authors style. I highly recommend this book. I will be reading more of this author. Thanks to the author, publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book. While I got the book for free, it had no bearing on the rating I gave it.