Protection
Published on 1. December 2011
64 pages
978-0-241-96187-2 (ISBN)
Description
Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. This is a chilling tale by Helen Dunmore.
'It was nothing, she tells herself, but her body knows better.'
Florence lives in the country, lapped by miles and miles of darkness. She feels safe there - until a noise wakes her in the middle of the night.
Protection is a short story by bestselling author Helen Dunmore that will cause your skin to prickle and make you ask yourself how far you would go to protect your family.
'It was nothing, she tells herself, but her body knows better.'
Florence lives in the country, lapped by miles and miles of darkness. She feels safe there - until a noise wakes her in the middle of the night.
Protection is a short story by bestselling author Helen Dunmore that will cause your skin to prickle and make you ask yourself how far you would go to protect your family.
Reviews / Votes
Typically clever and artful, a nervy skin-prickler that grabs your attention immediately and then develops into a subtler character piece * Spectator *More details
Series
Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
Digital original
File size
0,07 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-241-96187-2 (9780241961872)
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Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, children's author and poet. She published twelve novels including Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the inaugural Orange Prize in 1996; Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby and House of Orphans. She was posthumously awarded the Costa 2017 prize for her poetry collection Inside the Wave.
