The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick is a beautiful book which traces two families back and forth through centuries as they follow comets around the world. Francios, a French chef living with his mother who sees and talks to ghosts, family members who have passed; Roisin, an Irish astronomer who has left her small village to travel and see the world, struggling with ghosts of her own.

When these two meet at a lonely outpost in Antarctica, they find an unlikely connection and the story unfolds from there. Beautifully written, Sedgwick shows the distances we each need to travel in order to come home to ourselves. A great read.