Before The Swarm
Will be published approx. on 11. February 2027
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-3997-2735-8 (ISBN)
Description
BLACK GOLD FED THE HIVE . . . NOW IT CHOKES ON THE SMOKE.
On a bright Spring morning, a freak fire rages through an oil refinery in a small Scottish town, leaving two dead in its wake. For their families, for the workforce, and for the once close knit community, nothing will ever be the same . . .
Wracked with guilt and devastated by this loss, Duncan Williams, process supervisor at the time of the accident, struggles to find new purpose in a rapidly changing world.
And Zara Thompson, bereft daughter of one of the victims, fights to build a better life for her own daughter in the face of devastating odds.
Their lives, and the lives of those they hold dear, will interlace and intertwine, ultimately showing the power of human resilience, and the desperate need to change our ways, or lose our future forever.
On a bright Spring morning, a freak fire rages through an oil refinery in a small Scottish town, leaving two dead in its wake. For their families, for the workforce, and for the once close knit community, nothing will ever be the same . . .
Wracked with guilt and devastated by this loss, Duncan Williams, process supervisor at the time of the accident, struggles to find new purpose in a rapidly changing world.
And Zara Thompson, bereft daughter of one of the victims, fights to build a better life for her own daughter in the face of devastating odds.
Their lives, and the lives of those they hold dear, will interlace and intertwine, ultimately showing the power of human resilience, and the desperate need to change our ways, or lose our future forever.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
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Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
464 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3997-2735-8 (9781399727358)
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Rachelle Atalla is a Scottish-Egyptian novelist and screenwriter based in Glasgow. Her short stories have been published widely in literary anthologies and she is the recipient of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. Her first short film screenplay Trifle was commissioned by the Scottish Film & Talent Network and she is developing her first feature length screenplay with BBC Film. The Pharmacist was her first novel and shortlisted for the Scottish Fiction Book of the Year.