Solar

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement this “totally gripping and entirely hilarious” novel (The Wall Street Journal) traces the arc of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist’s ambitions and self-deception. Dr. Michael Beard’s best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation he speaks for enormous fees lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and halfheartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. Meanwhile Michael’s fifth marriage is floundering due to his incessant womanizing. When his professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident an opportunity presents itself for Michael to extricate himself from his marital problems reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster. But can a man who has made a mess of his life clean up the messes of humanity?