A gentle, unforced, lovely book. A novel that reads like a memoir, it is a record of a boy's idyllic summer in northern Montana, near the Canadian border. The time is 1926, the boy is 16 and the whole world's young.
Colin Stuart is a renowned astronomy speaker and best-selling author. He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a 2014 runner-up for the European Astronomy Journalism Prize. He lives in London.