A Lovely Way to Burn: Plague Times Trilogy 1 - Couverture souple

Welsh, Louise

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848546610 ISBN 13 : 9781848546615

Editeur : John Murray, 2014

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

An unusual and fascinating take on a crime novel from the established and endlessly inventive Louise Welsh . . . With a strong central character and vivid depictions of the disorder that accompanies social breakdown, it's a gripping book that prepares the way nicely for the next volume (Guardian)

Don't start reading this if you have a long to-do list, it's a hypnotically readable thriller and you won't get much don't until you've finished it . . . What's gripping about this is the way the two stories, the crime thriller and the gathering apocalypse combine to create something tenser and scarier than either alone. The way that society gradually disintegrates is brilliantly done; it makes you feel just how fragile civilisation is (Independent on Sunday)

A tense, claustrophobic medical whodunit with an apocalyptic tone that cranks the stakes ever higher (Herald)

I was with Louise Welsh's gutsy gripping heroine Stevie Flint every terrifying step of the way (Kirsty Wark, author of The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle)

I read it in two sittings, pausing only to sleep and dream about it. Gripping, perfectly paced and beautifully written (Erin Kelly, author of The Poison Tree)

A terrifying journey into the possible, this is dystopia for today. Feral, frightening and fascinating, A Lovely Way to Burn gripped and chilled me in equal measure (Val McDermid)

The first in a trilogy, and it should be huge (Bookseller)

I've felt for a while that we are in the mood for an intelligent slice of London-based dystopia, and I think Louise Welsh has cracked it with A Lovely Way to Burn . . . it kept me up all night nervously turning the pages (Cathy Rentzenbrink, Bookseller)

Welsh constructs an intelligent mystery within the pages of A Lovely Way to Burn . . . It's close enough to what we know to be utterly terrifying and that was part of its hold on me. Welsh has taken our everyday lives, given them a twist, and put them in the background of an intriguing, addictive novel (Girlreporter)

The book isn't out until the 20th March but a mixture of Welsh's writing style and the subject matter made it impossible to resist (Crimepieces)

Présentation de l'éditeur

As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime

It doesn't look like murder in a city full of death.

A pandemic called 'The Sweats' is sweeping the globe. London is a city in crisis. Hospitals begin to fill with the dead and dying, but Stevie Flint is convinced that the sudden death of her boyfriend Dr Simon Sharkey was not from natural causes. As roads out of London become gridlocked with people fleeing infection, Stevie's search for Simon's killers takes her in the opposite direction, into the depths of the dying city and a race with death.

A Lovely Way to Burn is the first outbreak in the Plague Times trilogy. Chilling, tense and completely compelling, it's Louise Welsh writing at the height of her powers.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: John Murray
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1848546610
• ISBN 13: 9781848546615
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 368