'Radiant¿Barrett is a writer of huge imagination. Like Michael Ondaatje, she brings the curious and the obscure to life with great resonance and poetry'
'Daily Telegraph'

A mapper of the highest mountain peaks realizes his true obsession; a young woman afire with scientific curiosity must come to terms with a romantic fantasy; brothers and sister, torn apart at an early age, are beset by dreams of reunion¿Ranging across two centuries, and from the western Himalayas to an Adirondack village, these wonderfully imagined novellas and stories travel the territories of yearning and awakening, of loss and unexpected discovery.

'Andrea Barrett writes as persuasively about the mysteries of science as she does about the mysteries of the human heart. These stories possess a wonderful clarity and ease, the serene authority of a writer working at the very height of her powers.'
'New York Times'

'Barrett's insights into the stormier regions of the heart offer plenty of restorative balm.'
'Independent'

'Barrett brings to life the longings, eagerness and hidden passions of assorted wanderers over the last two centuries. Infinitely pleasurable escapism.'