The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

(Hodder & Stoughton, 2022)

Reviewed by Jamie Mollart

The Space Between Worlds was a Sunday Times bestseller, the winner of the Kitschies Golden Tentacle award and a New York Times Book review editor’s choice, so the question I asked myself as I settled down to read it was ‘does it live up to the hype?’.

Firstly, it doesn’t feel like the sort of book that gets this sort of fanfare. The blurb suggests space opera and deep sci-fi, but it is far from that. It’s actually an intimate novel with a small cast, exploring identity, class and family. It might be set in effectively a high concept situation, but the situation is the background, not the driving force.

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