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A major new novel from the critically acclaimed author of IF THE INVADER COMES.
On Boxing Day 1962 it began to snow. Over the next two months England froze. It was the coldest winter since 1740. The sea iced over. Cars could be driven across the Thames.
Riding home from London in that first snowfall, on the powerful motorbike he was given for Christmas, seventeen-year-old Alan Rae has a brush with death. Immediately he meets a girl, Cynthia, who will change his life. But someone else is equally preoccupied with her, Geoffrey, a young scientist who works with Alan’s father in the race with the Americans and the Russians to develop the microchip. Alan, Geoffrey and Cynthia become linked by a web of secrets which, while the country remains in icy suspension, threatens everything they ever trusted.
Derek Beaven’s new novel is a moral drama. It demands that we question who our real friends are, and asks us to reconsider the scientific assumptions upon which all of modern life, and much of modern fiction, is based.
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'Beaven has the gift for creating insistently human individuals who prove to be illuminating under pressure ... a fine engagement with the largest and smallest details of what it is to be English.'
Lavinia Greenlaw, TLS
'He gives us all the uncertainty, liveliness, rumours and unheroic struggles of the present ... as clear as a Vermeer mirror.'
David Robertson, Scotsman
'Large, deft, prickly and ambitious. His work practically explodes with narrative assurance.'
Julie Myerson, Guardian
‘His is a prodigal talent’ Lorna Sage
‘Not since I first read Jim Crace have I been so much impressed by a novelist recently embarked on his career.’ Francis King
‘Beaven is reminiscent of William Faulkner ... distinctive and unforgettable.’ David Horspool, Daily Telegraph
‘An important and original writer’ Hilary Mantel
Derek Beaven lives in Maidenhead, Berkshire. His first novel, NEWTON’S NIECE (1994) was shortlisted for the Writers' Guild Best Novel Prize and won a Commonwealth Prize. His second, ACTS OF MUTINY (1998) was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize. His third, IF THE INVADER COMES (2001) was long-listed for the Booker Prize.
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- PublisherFourth Estate
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0007148100
- ISBN 13 9780007148103
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