The Lover

The Lover

Paperback (21 Apr 2005)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Autumn, 1940, and London is in the grip of the Blitz. An unidentified female corpse is discovered in an alleyway in Soho - the fourth to have been found in a matter of weeks.

Rene is a Soho prostitute with a young son to support. She's learnt to cope with the air-raids, but each night on the streets is a terrifying ordeal as the killer begins to pick off her friends. Lucy is a young, middle-class office worker living with her family in Clapham, struggling to make sense of things as her peaceful suburban life degenerates into chaos. Jim is a fighter pilot, handsome and much admired for his heroism in battle. The killer instinct makes him perfectly suited to the daily challenge he faces in the skies of southern England, but the strain is beginning to tell.

In ordinary circumstances, their paths might never have crossed, but in war-torn London, anything can happen. One night a bomb falls, with terrifying consequences for them all...

Book information

ISBN: 9780752864174
Publisher: Orion
Imprint: Orion Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 22
Number of pages: 359
Weight: 210g
Height: 178mm
Width: 111mm
Spine width: 26mm