The Quiet Woman
After a Chernobyl-like accident at a fast breeder reactor on the north coast of France, Britain is shrouded in radioactive fall-out. When her best friend is murdered, a young writer is forced to make sense of the deadly world she now occupies.
After a Chernobyl-like accident at a fast breeder reactor on the north coast of France, Britain is shrouded in radioactive fall-out. When her best friend is murdered, a young writer is forced to make sense of the deadly world she now occupies.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780809510634 (0809510634)
Publish date: January 1st 2005
Publisher: Cosmos Books
Pages no: 188
Edition language: English
Towards the end of this book, when the protagonist Alice finally manages to drag out of her antagonist George some kind of explanation as to why her manuscript has been seized, she is told this:"The depiction of characters is sketchey, and only the most shallow of motives are attributed to them to e...