Samantha Harvey's Orbital, which won the 2024 Booker Prize, is set where?
- Aboard the International Space Station
- In a submarine on a six-month Arctic mission
- In a remote Antarctic research station
- On a transatlantic ocean liner in the 1930s
Answer: Aboard the International Space Station — the novel takes place over sixteen orbits of the Earth in a single day
Orbital follows six astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station over one day of their nine-month mission. Judge chair Edmund de Waal described it as a book about a wounded world. Samantha Harvey was the first woman to win the Booker since 2019. The trophy was presented to her by 2023 winner Paul Lynch at a ceremony in London on 12 November 2024.