
The Week at World's End
Emma Carroll(Author)
Faber & Faber (Publisher)
Published on 3. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-571-33283-0 (ISBN)
Description
1962, London during the Cuban Missile Crisis
What would you do if there was a real possibility that the world might end?
Ray, aware of his parents' building worry, decides to take matters into his own hands. He builds a shelter in the woods behind his house in the hope that he never has to use it. Only to discover that someone else needs it more than he does. An American girl, reported missing, has turned up there...
Why is she hiding? And with neighbour turning against neighbour, will Ray be willing to help her?
Set over the six days when the Cuban Missile Crisis became public knowledge, this tense, clever thriller might just be Emma Carroll's best book yet!
What would you do if there was a real possibility that the world might end?
Ray, aware of his parents' building worry, decides to take matters into his own hands. He builds a shelter in the woods behind his house in the hope that he never has to use it. Only to discover that someone else needs it more than he does. An American girl, reported missing, has turned up there...
Why is she hiding? And with neighbour turning against neighbour, will Ray be willing to help her?
Set over the six days when the Cuban Missile Crisis became public knowledge, this tense, clever thriller might just be Emma Carroll's best book yet!
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Children/juvenile
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
288 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-33283-0 (9780571332830)
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08/2021
Faber & Faber
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Emma Carroll was a secondary school English teacher for many years. This is Emma's tenth novel for Faber; she has also written the highly-acclaimed Frost Hollow Hall, The Girl Who Walked on Air, In Darkling Wood, The Snow Sister, Strange Star, Letters from the Lighthouse, Secrets of a Sun King, When we were Warriors and The Somerset Tsunami. She lives in the Somerset hills with her husband and two terriers.