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A Quiet Contagion

Jane Jesmond author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Verve Books

Published:28th Nov '23

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Six decades. Seven people. One unspeakable secret.

1957. A catastrophe occurs at the pharmaceutical lab in Coventry where sixteen-year-old Wilf is working for the summer. A catastrophe that needs to be covered up at all costs.

2017. Phiney is shocked by the death of her grandfather, Wilf, who has jumped from a railway bridge at a Coventry station. Journalist Mat Torrington is the only witness.

Left with a swarm of unanswered questions, Phiney, Mat and Wilf's wife, Dora, begin their own enquiries into Wilf's death. It is soon clear that these two events, sixty years apart, are connected - and that Wilf is not the only casualty.

But what is the link? And can they find out before any more lives are lost?

Jesmond's thriller incorporates a very likeable protagonist and a really twisty plot with a thought-provoking moral dilemma -- John Williams * Mail on Sunday *
A poignant, heart-rending read -- Woman's Own

It's a tight plot, and the red herrings had me guessing unsuccessfully all the way through as to what happened and who was to blame-just what any thriller writer wants from their reader. A very satisfying read

-- Historical Novel Society

Jesmond ... mines intriguingly a tragic historical episode

-- The Times (Best New Thriller for December)
A well written story, with excellently created characters. This blend of history and contemporary, fact and fiction is original and engrossing * Mature Times *

ISBN: 9780857308498

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Weight: unknown

320 pages