“Heavens Above! Finally a Booker Prize winner we can all get behind.” Samantha Harvey won this year’s coveted literary prize with her novel “Orbital.”

It is the first book set in space to win the award, and Harvey is the first author to win the award. Reserver from Bernardine Evaristo in 2019. “It’s bold, it’s scintillating” and “gloriously imaginative”, and “one of the most original novels I’ve read in a long time”, said Johanna Thomas-Corr in The times.