Good Morning Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton

[King Bob]

I read this thinking it was going to be a post-apocalyptic story, but it is only slightly. There is some sort of worldwide catastrophe (never specified) and there's an old astronomer and a young girl at an observatory in the Arctic. There's also a spacecraft returning from a mission to the moons of Jupiter. A lot of it is the astronomer thinking about his past, and an astronaut thinking about hers. The writing is good, but there's a twist near the end that I think goes against the grain of the narrative up to that point. Oh well, it was a first novel so maybe I'm too picky. Curious to see what she does next. I'd say not really a DOOM book.

A film is in the works, directed by and starring George Clooney as the astronomer, with Felicity Jones as the astronaut. I'm not sure how well it will work since so much of the book is interior monologue.