Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Booker Winner)

Meet at 7pm.  Phone 0423105697.  Sydney Writers Festival will be on later in May so good to chat about that festival.

Synopsis:

Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft above the earth. They are there to collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day. Yet although separated from the world …