Hold Back the Stars

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‘We’re going to be fine.’
He looks around, but there’s nothing out here: nothing but the bottomless black universe on their left, the Earth suspended in glorious technicolour to their right.

Carys and Max have ninety minutes of air left.
None of this was supposed to happen.
But, perhaps this doesn’t need to be the end…
Adrift in space with nothing to hold on to but each other, Carys and Max can’t help but look back at the well-ordered world they have left behind – at the rules they couldn’t reconcile themselves to, and a life to which they might now never return.
For in a world where love is banned, what happens when you find it?

Hold Back the Stars is a love story like no other.

PRAISE FOR HOLD BACK THE STARS

'Original, surprising and romantic.' Woman & Home

‘Full of wonder and heart.’ Emma Jane Unsworth

'The most unique love story I've read in years.' Rowan Coleman

'Think Gravity meets The Versions of Us.' Red

Critics Review

  • Prepare to shed tears

    Heat

  • Original, surprising and romantic

    Woman & Home

  • Breaks your heart, then kicks it a few more times for good measure in the most beautiful way possible

    The Pool

  • A high-stakes, high-concept love story from a bold new talent . . . All of the obvious “out of this world” comments apply.

    Matt Haig, author of The Humans

  • Think Gravity meets The Versions of Us

    Red

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