A Quiet Contagion

by Jane Jesmond

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Six decades. Seven people. One unspeakable secret.

1957. A catastrophe occurs at the pharmaceutical lab in Coventry where sixteen-year-old Wilf is working for the summer. A catastrophe that needs to be covered up at all costs.

2017. Phiney is shocked by the death of her grandfather, Wilf, who has jumped from a railway bridge at a Coventry station. Journalist Mat Torrington is the only witness.

Left with a swarm of unanswered questions, Phiney, Mat and Wilf's wife, Dora, begin their own enquiries into Wilf's death. It is soon clear that these two events, sixty years apart, are connected - and that Wilf is not the only casualty.

But what is the link? And can they find out before any more lives are lost?

  • ISBN13 9780857308498
  • Publish Date 28 November 2023 (first published 7 November 2023)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Oldcastle Books Ltd
  • Imprint Verve Books