After a two-year hiatus, Taylor Jenkins Reid has announced a new book!
The latest from the bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six will hit shelves from Ballantine Books on June 3, 2025.
A romance between two astronauts, Atmosphere is “an epic novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program and the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits,” according to a press release shared with PEOPLE.
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“Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, with complex protagonists, telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love, this time among the stars,” reads a statement from publisher Penguin Random House.
The protagonist in the new book, Joan Goodwin, is an astronomer and astronaut who works at NASA’s Houston Mission Control Center. Joan, who remains on Earth to communicate with those in space, must think quickly on her feet when the spacecraft carrying her love interest incurs danger.
“I wanted so badly to tell a story that was life or death, where the stakes were so immediate — and we understood that it might not always go the way that we want it to go,” Jenkins Reid told Vogue. “There’s something beautiful to be found in this heightened moment.”
Jenkins Reid’s new novel comes after the massive success of bestsellers in what she calls her “famous women quartet.” Daisy Jones & The Six is now a hit TV series on Amazon Prime, and Netflix is in the process of adapting The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo into a movie.
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Atmosphere will be available June 3, 2025 and is available now for preorder, wherever books are sold.
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