A quiet contagion / Jane Jesmond.
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TextPublisher: Leicester [England] : Ulverscroft, Charnwood, 2024Edition: Large print editionDescription: 384 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781444852479Subject(s): Pharmaceutical industry -- Fiction | Epidemics -- Fiction | Polio -- Fiction | Suicide victims -- Family relationships -- Fiction | Nineteen fifties -- Fiction | Coventry (England) -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction. | Large type books. Summary: 1957. A catastrophe occurs at the pharmaceutical lab in Coventry where 16-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 in utter disbelief, 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, 60 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?
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Large Print | F JES (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 29/05/2024 | 31111083132785 |
1957. A catastrophe occurs at the pharmaceutical lab in Coventry where 16-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 in utter disbelief, 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, 60 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?
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