Lennox is a troubled teenager with no family. Ava is eight months pregnant and fleeing her abusive husband. Heather is a grieving mother and cancer sufferer. They don't know each other, but when a meteor streaks over Edinburgh, all three suffer instant, catastrophic strokes...
...only to wake up the following day in hospital, miraculously recovered.
When news reaches them of an octopus-like creature washed up on the shore near where the meteor came to earth, Lennox senses that some extra-terrestrial force is at play. With the help of Ava, Heather and a journalist, Ewan, he rescues the creature they call 'Sandy' and goes on the run.
But they aren't the only ones with an interest in the alien ... close behind are Ava's husband, the police and a government unit who wants to capture the creature, at all costs. And Sandy's arrival may have implications beyond anything anyone could imagine...
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(Orenda Books, 2 March 2023, e-book, 322 pages, borrowed from Glasgow Libraries via OverDrive)
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I loved The Space Between Us. I've wanted to read this since the book was featured on Between The Covers. I've read and enjoyed other books by the author, but this is very different from his other work. I read a lot of science-fiction and this book straddles more than one genre. I didn't want to stop reading. The book has multiple viewpoint characters. I liked the fact the short chapters move between the different characters. I loved the fact that three strangers with nothing in common come together to save something so strange and not of their world. This is a fantastic book.
