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  • Published: 5 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804941263
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

Atmosphere





The new novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six

'Tipped to be this summer's biggest read' SUNDAY TIMES
'A richly drawn page-turner' OBSERVER
'Quite possibly our favourite TJR novel yet' COSMOPOLITAN

READERS ARE SAYING...
'So emotional by the end that I could hardly speak' - Reader Review, 5*****
'Melted my heart by the end' - Reader Review, 5*****
'Taylor Jenkins Reid is the master of a really great love story' - Reader Review, 5*****
'Taylor Jenkins Reid's best book yet' - Reader Review, 5*****

An epic novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.

In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond; mission specialists John Griffin and Lydia Danes; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer. As the new astronauts prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined and begins to question everything she believes about her place in the observable universe.

Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant.

Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, creating complex protagonists, and telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love – this time among the stars.

'Is there a popular fiction writer alive who conveys falling in love better than Taylor Jenkins Reid?' DAILY MAIL

'Thrilling ... heartbreaking ... uplifting. Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel Atmosphere is the fast-paced, emotionally-charged story of one ambitious young woman, finding both her voice and her passion ... I loved it' KRISTIN HANNAH, author of The Women

'NASA? Space missions? The 80s? This is a collection of all the things I love. Great story, excellent research and accuracy, and a thrilling conclusion.' ANDY WEIR, author of Project Hail Mary and The Martian

'I absolutely adored this' BRYONY GORDON

  • Published: 5 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804941263
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

About the author

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Taylor Jenkins Reid is the author of several novels, including Daisy Jones & The Six, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Forever, Interrupted. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, their daughter, and their dog.

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Praise for Atmosphere

TJR is surely the queen of escapist fiction

Sunday Telegraph

Thrilling ... heartbreaking ... uplifting. Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel, Atmosphere, is the fast-paced, emotionally-charged story of one ambitious young woman, finding both her voice and her passion, as she fights to become one of the first female NASA astronauts in the 1980s. You'll barrel through this electric novel, rooting for the women to not only succeed in the space program, but to soar. A pitch perfect ending ... I loved it.

Kristin Hannah, author of 'The Women'

NASA? Space missions? The 80s? This is a collection of all the things I love. Great story, excellent research and accuracy, and a thrilling conclusion.

Andy Weir, author of 'Project Hail Mary' and 'The Martian'

A richly drawn page-turner ... It would take a stony reader to turn away from its pleasures ... Melding action thriller emergency with star-crossed romance ... I'd be lying if I said my eyes weren't wet by the end

Observer

An ambitious novel that explores human limitation, sacrifice and the essence of love itself

Woman & Home

Takes you on a journey to show the lengths we go to for love. Sure to be a must-read

Fabulous

Quite possibly our favourite TJR novel yet ... Even if you're not a big space fan, you can't help but fall for this cosmic tale

Cosmopolitan

Moving, pacey and a read that will stick with you

Press Association

You'll see this one on every sun lounger this summer

iPaper

Tipped to be this summer's big read

Sunday Times

Is there a popular fiction writer alive who conveys falling in love better than Taylor Jenkins Reid?

Daily Mail

Atmosphere is at once epic and intimate, heart-wrenching and hopeful. It's an escapist novel of the best kind with a final few pages that will leave you utterly breathless

Culturefly

I absolutely adored this

Bryony Gordon

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