A woman returns to Ireland for her mother’s funeral carrying a secret she has kept for fifty years, and finds a letter waiting for her.

A new star appears in the night sky, and a defeated physics teacher decides it must mean something, until she decides it doesn’t.

A mathematician in Dakar makes a discovery that should change everything, and a bored teenager in her bedroom holds the fate of the universe in her hands.

A woman who has built a quiet life in a small village finds that the people around her have been paying closer attention than she realised.