TJ Klune for The Stars Look Like Home
Thursday 18th February 2027, 7.30pm
Pilrig St. Paul's / LARCH, Leith Walk, Edinburgh EH6 5AH
7pm
7.30pm
TJ Klune is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, Under the Whispering Door, In the Lives of Puppets, and the Green Creek Series for adults, the Extraordinaries Series for teens, and more.
TJ Klune joins us for his new novel The Stars Look Like Home, a story about the healing power of found family and of finding happiness in the unlikeliest of places.
Above all, this triumphant, joyful novel is a love letter to all of our four-legged friends.
Meet Burke: a young dog (part German Shepherd, part Husky, wolf at heart) who just wants to find his forever home, especially after he fails to meet the rigorous standards of a training programme for service animals. (After a minor incident involving a rabbit which Burke maintains really wasn't his fault.)
Enter Jake: a grieving philosophy professor. Persuaded to foster Burke temporarily by his dog-trainer sister, Jake finally has a reason to get out of bed in the morning.
Slowly - one dog walk at a time - the broken pieces of Jake's heart begin to mend. But Burke starts to realise what Jake does not: what he really needs is a bigger pack. And where better to find Jake a new human in his life than at the local dog park . . .