THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 'A dazzling epic of love; war and the joy of books' Guardian 'There is magic in this place ... You just have to sit and breathe and wait and it will find you' Fifteenth-century Constantinople. Present day Idaho. The future; and humanity's last hope. Across time and space; five young dreamers are bound by a single ancient text. Together; they tell a story of a world in peril; of the power of words; of resilience; and of hope against all odds. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See returns with a heart-breaking; magnificent epic of human connection and a love letter to storytelling itself. 'Wonderment and despair; love and destruction and hope - all find their place in its sumptuously plotted pages' Observer 'Ingenious; hopeful and totally absorbing' Financial Times 'This engagingly written; big-hearted book is a must-read' Daily Mirror