*AN INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program, about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.

Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. She is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA's space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to go to space.

Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston's Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, easygoing even when the stakes are high; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer who can fix any engine and fly any plane.

As they become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.

Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant.

Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love–this time among the stars.

"Her most propulsive novel yet. . . . A heart-pounding race against the clock combined with a love story adds up to a novel that’s impossible to put down." —Kirkus, starred review

"Atmosphere is a character study brimming with heart, both quietly lyrical and an action-packed nail-biter."—USA Today

"A thrilling story of adventure, unexpected romance and a moment in time that will change her world—and possibly the world—forever." —Town & Country

"A richly drawn page-turner. . . . It would take a stony reader to turn away from its pleasures." —The Observer

"An ambitious novel that explores human limitation, sacrifice and the essence of love itself." —Woman & Home

"Moving, pacey and a read that will stick with you." —Press Association

"Thrilling . . . heartbreaking . . . uplifting. . . Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel, Atmosphere, is the fast-paced, emotionally charged story of one ambitious young woman finding both her voice and her passion as she fights to become one of the first female NASA astronauts in the 1980s. You’ll barrel through this electric novel, rooting for the women to not only succeed in the space program but to soar. A pitch-perfect ending. . . . I loved it." —Kristin Hannah, bestselling author of The Women

"NASA? Space missions? The '80s? This is a collection of all the things I love. . . . Great story, excellent research and accuracy and a thrilling conclusion." —Andy Weir, bestselling author of The Martian

“When you pick up a Taylor Jenkins Reid novel, there are three things that are almost guaranteed: an exceptional woman at its centre, a gut-punching twist toward the end and a journey so transportive you’ll look up from your page with a kind of shock that you’re sitting on your beach chair in 2025 and not. . . slack-jawed with horror in NASA’s mission control, watching a space disaster unfold in real time.” —The Globe and Mail

“Thrilling from the start.” —CBC

Engaging and compulsively readable.” —The Daily Observer

“A thrilling journey set in iconic moments in time, Atmosphere delivers complex protagonists, a fast-paced read and a passionate story about the transformative power of love.” —People