When Penguin signed up The One Memory of Flora Banks and said they would publish it in January 2017, that seemed like an impossibly distant future date that would never arrive; as if they’d said ‘We’ll publish in 3059, in the Andromeda galaxy’. And then, somehow, it came round, and now Flora Banks is out there in the world.

Here are some pictures from the amazing launch party at the Ice Bar in London. I’m still reeling.

All photos are by Danny Jackson.