Violet Hill
$25.06
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
7 February 2019
Summary
‘Henrietta McKervey is a storyteller of rare gifts. VIOLET HILL is a wonderfully assured and compelling novel, so evocative of a London that has long ceased to be, yet crackling on every page with urgently contemporary resonance and meaning. I could not put it down.’ Joseph O’Connor
December 1918: Post-War London is grieving, the city a wound whose dressing was taken off too soon. Violet Hill, the only female private detective in the city, is hired by Sir Art…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473682689 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473682681 |
| Author: | Henrietta McKervey |
| Publisher: | Hachette Books Ireland |
| Imprint: | Hachette Books Ireland |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 7 February 2019 |
| Weight: | 244g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 23mm |
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A fascinating and extremely well-written blend of historical and contemporary crime fiction - Irish IndependentAn evocative and compelling read - Irish Times
A fascinating and extremely well-written blend of historical and contemporary crime fiction - Irish Independent
An evocative and compelling read - Irish TimesAbout The Author
Henrietta McKervey
Henrietta McKervey is the author of the acclaimed novels What Becomes of Us, The Heart of Everything, Violet Hill and A Talented Man. She has?a Hennessy First Fiction Award and won the inaugural UCD Maeve Binchy Travel Award. Her Travel Award project, an exploration of the 31 Sea Areas of the Shipping Forecast, featured on BBC Radio 4. She has programmed the ECHOES festival and International Literature Festival Dublin, and contributes to the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Independent and the Brendan O’Connor show on RTE Radio 1.
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