TransAtlantic is divided into two books. It opens in 2012, in a cottage by a lough, but nips swiftly back to 1919 and Alcock and Brown’s pioneering flight from Newfoundland to a boggy crash-landing in the west of Ireland. In her four-star review, Freya Johnston said: "Just when you start to think that this novel is no more than a collection of disparate tales, book two shows you how they are interlocked. It seems fitting that the author also sends us back to the start. The zigzag chronology, as it turns out, was designed to make us think about how we remember and how we change. TransAtlantic makes a valiant attempt to recover the “long migratory orbits” of people and their possessions."