Writer-in-Residence John Pipkin has just published The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter. Set in late eighteenth-century Ireland, the novel centers on Caroline Ainsworth, whose father, Arthur, commits suicide after going blind from observing the sun. Caroline reluctantly takes up her father’s work, but soon finds herself caught up in events that shake Ireland and Western Europe at century’s end.

Writing in Library Journal, Cynthia Johnson writes, “Pipkin’s exquisitely crafted historical novel offer us many things: a sensitive recounting of Ireland’s travails as its impoverished populace struggles to feed and clothe itself, a riveting description of the passion of discovery in the late 18th century, and a brilliant examination of such age-old themes as the longing for permanence and belonging.” 

The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter is published by Bloomsbury.

Find out more about the novel and its author at http://www.johnpipkin.com/