His Coldest Winter

Author: Derek Beaven
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Book Format: Paperback

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 has been 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.

About Derek Beaven
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.

(BK-9780007151103)

SKU BK-9780007151103
Barcode # 9780007151103
Brand HarperPerennial
Artist / Author Derek Beaven
Shipping Weight 0.2000kg
Shipping Width 0.130m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.200m
Assembled Length 19.800m
Assembled Height 1.700m
Assembled Width 12.900m
Type Paperback

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