The Second Frost (Confinstabloom Rooky) - Couverture souple

N, Felix

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798237602449

Editeur : Felix N, 2026

Synopsis

The drawer by Duncan Reid's stove has been shut for fourteen years. When he finally opens it there are three things inside where there should be thirty, and a clean rectangle in the dust at the back where something sat for a decade.

His wife has been dead since 2012. He has four sentences about her and nothing else, and he has spent fourteen years calling that grief.

It was not grief. It was a removal. A kind woman in a navy coat has been coming to houses after a death and taking the hard part off people's hands, and everything she carries out of them is currency in a war on the other side of a door.

Then a man walks into Duncan's repair shop at minus six with no coat, no papers and no name, and one memory in him that is not his own.

Nine weeks to the turn of the year. When the account falls due it balances itself out of whoever is nearest, and there are three thousand people in this city who will wake on New Year's Day lighter, and never know by how much.

Duncan can save one of them.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

About the Author

Felix N.BBA.MA.QA'rb. writes fiction that treats ordinary communities as the site of extraordinary moral weight - small towns and mid-sized cities where a single formula, a single silence, or a single inherited decision turns out to carry the whole history of who a place has chosen to protect and who it has chosen to let go quiet.

Felix's work returns often to the same conviction: that injustice rarely announces itself as villainy. It arrives instead as policy, as process, as the reasonable-sounding choice a frightened, well-intentioned person makes under pressure - and that fiction's job is to make that choice visible again, long after the institutions built on top of it have learned to call it normal.

Felix lives close enough to water to never quite stop thinking about what it remembers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Felix N
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798237602449
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible