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The Earthquake Bird

By Susanna Jones

The Earthquake Bird Contemporary literature

The Earthquake Bird

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Early this morning, several hours before my arrest, I was woken by an earth tremor. I mention the incident not to suggest that there was a connection - that somehow the fault lines in my life came crashing together in a form of a couple of policemen - for in Tokyo we have a quake like this every month. I am simply relating the sequence of events as it happened. It has been an unusual day and I would hate to forget anything . . . So begins The Earthquake Bird, a haunting novel set in Japan which reveals a murder on its first page and takes its readers into the mind of the chief suspect, Lucy Fly - a young, vulnerable English girl living and working in Tokyo as a translator. As Lucy is interrogated by the police she reveals her past to the reader, and it is a past which is dangerously ambiguous and compromising . . . Why did Lucy leave England for the foreign anonymity of Japan ten years before, and what exactly had prompted her to sever all links with her family back home? She was the last person to see the murdered girl alive, so why was she not more forthcoming about the circumstances of their last meeting? As Lucy's story unfolds, it emerges that secrets, both past and present, obsess her waking life . . . Winner of the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2013-03-31
Publication Date:
2013-03-31
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0330485024
ISBN13:
9780330485029
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
179 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
199 cm
Thickness:
19 cm

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