The Cloud Chamber - Couverture souple

George, Clare

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0340824220 ISBN 13 : 9780340824221

Editeur : Sceptre, 2003

Synopsis

Walter is a young Australian who comes to England (falling in love with a beautiful and feisty schoolteacher on the boat journey) to follow his dream of being a scientist at the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge. There he falls under the spell of the charismatic scientists involved in splitting the atom and the other experiments that eventually led to the building of the atomic bomb. In 1945, in London, an older, disillusioned Walter struggles to keep his marriage together and to come to terms with what he - as a pacifist - saw as a terrible betrayal by his mentors and his best friend Alan Nunn May. Meanwhile, Nunn May is back in London, keeping a low profile and being shadowed by a rather inept and unenthusiastic spy. Walter is the only person Alan has seen since his return and so unwittingly, he and his family fall under surveillance too...The story that unfolds is an engrossing tale of friendship and betrayal, of forgiveness and enduring love and of the dangerous burden of scientific knowledge.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Clare George is 30 years old. She is a graduate of the University of East Anglia Creative Writing Course, and she lives and works in London. THE CLOUD CHAMBER is her first novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sceptre
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0340824220
• ISBN 13: 9780340824221
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible