Cold Heaven - Softcover

Moore, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449206025 ISBN 13: 9780449206027

Publisher: Fawcett Books, 1984

Synopsis

After a holiday accident that apparently causes her husband's death, Marie Davenport is confounded by his overnight disappearance from the hospital morgue

About this title

Review

"Eerily suspenseful, compelling and brilliant."--David Miller, The Independent (London)

"One of the finest writers of our time."--Ian Thomson, The Guardian

"An entertainment, a theological Twilight Zone episode, a modernized Bernadette of Lourdes."--Kirkus

From the Back Cover

On holiday in the south of France, Dr Alex Davenport is caught up in a fatal accident at sea. His wife, Marie, suddenly finds herself in the bitterly ironic position of a woman who has lost the husband she had been planning to leave for another man – she had just been waiting for the right time to tell him. A day later, however, she is summoned to the hospital to be told hat his body has disappeared from the morgue. Returning in confusion to the hotel, she then discovers that his clothes, passport and plane ticket have also gone ...

Moving from the Riviera to the coast of California, 'Cold Heaven' is a compulsive and hypnotic tale of the bizarre, the inexplicable, the supernatural and the eccentricities of everyday life.

“A master of narrative ... deeply compelling ... classic Moore.”
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

“Striking and strange, 'Cold Heaven' is told with the panicky sense of urgency at which Moore excels.”
OBSERVER

“A brilliant novel.”
IRISH PRESS

“'Cold Heaven' is extraordinary ... such an absorbing story that we take the miraculous in our stride.”
DAILY TELEGRAPH

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Edition details

• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0449206025
• ISBN 13: 9780449206027
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English