The Coroner's Daughter by Andrew Hughes

The Coroner's Daughter by Andrew HughesChosen by Dublin City Council as their 'One Dublin One Book' title for 2023. 'Just brilliant.' DONAL RYAN 'An exceptionally good book.' C. J. SANSOM 1816 was the year without a summer. A rare climatic event has brought frost to July, and a lingering fog casts a pall over a Dublin stirred by zealotry and civil unrest, torn between evangelical and rationalist dogma. Amid the disquiet, a young nursemaid in a pious household conceals a pregnancy and then

Caribbean and British in 1960s Birmingham

'A taut and gripping tale that deftly skewers the perfect balance of crime

I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things

a woman whose discovery of a hand-drawn map in the book begins a thrilling mystery

' Lena Dunham

The immigration officer shook my hand and his hard face softened

especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century

an incarnation of its frozen woe

Condemned by their pity to living she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight

who wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret

It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022

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