Our Moon

Longlisted for the National Book Award 2024 ''Passionate and absorbing'' SUNDAY TIMES ''I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime of study'' CHRIS HADFIELD, author of An Astronaut''s Guide to Life on Earth ''Superb: as much a feat of imagination as it is a work of globe-trotting scholarship'' TELEGRAPH ''Boyle''s writing shines, shifting through time and space, science and sentiment; a luminous read'' REBECCA WRAGG SYKES, author of Kindred ''You will never look at the Moon the same way again . . . fascinating'' NEW STATESMAN ''A riveting feat of science writing'' ED YONG, author of An Immense World ''Engrossing'' INDEPENDENT Every living being throughout history, across time and geography, has gazed up at the same moon. From the first prehistoric life that crawled