The Last Hours

Author:   Minette Walters ,  Helen Keeley
Publisher:   Mira Books
Edition:   Original ed.
ISBN:  

9780778369318


Pages:   544
Publication Date:   07 August 2018
Format:   Hardback
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The Last Hours


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When the Black Death enters England through the port in Dorsetshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is--or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church cites God as the cause, and fear grips the people as they come to believe that the plague is a punishment for wickedness. But Lady Anne of Develish has her own ideas. Educated by nuns, Anne is a rarity among women, being both literate and knowledgeable. With her brutal husband absent from the manor when news of this pestilence reaches her, she looks for more sensible ways to protect her people than daily confessions of sin. She decides to bring her serfs inside the safety of the moat that surrounds her manor house, then refuses entry to anyone else, even her husband. Lady Anne makes an enemy of her daughter and her husband's steward by doing so, but her resolve is strengthened by the support of her leading serfs...until food stocks run low. The nerves of all are tested by continued confinement and ignorance of what is happening in the world outside. The people of Develish are alive. But for how long? And what will they discover when the time comes for them to cross the moat again? Compelling and suspenseful, The Last Hours is a riveting tale of human ingenuity and endurance set against the worst pandemic in history. In Lady Anne of Develish--leader, savior, heretic--Walters has created her most memorable heroine to date.

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Author:   Minette Walters ,  Helen Keeley
Publisher:   Mira Books
Imprint:   Mira Books
Edition:   Original ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9780778369318


ISBN 10:   0778369315
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   07 August 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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This compact, well-told and extraordinarily atmospheric story packs more punch than many much longer books. -The Guardian Sly pacing and a detached narrative voice give this horror story exceptional punch. -Kirkus, starred review Reads like a particularly grim Grimm's Fairy Tale, with an all-too-credible contemporary setting.... Gratifyingly menacing. -Daily Mail UK A compulsive (and gruesome) read. -Independent


"""This compact, well-told and extraordinarily atmospheric story packs more punch than many much longer books."" -The Guardian ""Sly pacing and a detached narrative voice give this horror story exceptional punch."" -Kirkus, starred review ""Reads like a particularly grim Grimm's Fairy Tale, with an all-too-credible contemporary setting.... Gratifyingly menacing."" -Daily Mail UK ""A compulsive (and gruesome) read."" -Independent"


This compact, well-told and extraordinarily atmospheric story packs more punch than many much longer books. -The Guardian Sly pacing and a detached narrative voice give this horror story exceptional punch. -Kirkus, starred review Reads like a particularly grim Grimm's Fairy Tale, with an all-too-credible contemporary setting.... Gratifyingly menacing. -Daily Mail UK A compulsive (and gruesome) read. -Independent


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Minette Walters is an internationally bestselling author with more than twenty-five million copies of her books sold worldwide. Her suspense has won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best crime novel, the CWA New Blood Dagger for best British debut crime novel, and two CWA Gold Daggers for best British crime novel. She lives in Dorset. The Turn of Midnight is the sequel to The Last Hours, Walters' historical novel about the arrival of the Black Death on England's shore.

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