In The Blink Of An Eye - Eade, Oliver
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Larry, an Edinburgh schoolboy, defies his doctor father, during COVID-19 lockdown, to meet with friends in the Meadows, but abandons them on seeing Skye, a girl in the year below him with whom he has been in love ever since she sang a solo at a school concert two years previously. Engineered by Larry's doting sister, Angie, their young love seems to blossom until Skye is taken away to Stornoway by her single mother and forbidden to contact Larry. Devastated, Larry then goes down with COVID-19 and ends up on a ventilator where his life hangs in the balance whilst, disconnected from his body, he…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Larry, an Edinburgh schoolboy, defies his doctor father, during COVID-19 lockdown, to meet with friends in the Meadows, but abandons them on seeing Skye, a girl in the year below him with whom he has been in love ever since she sang a solo at a school concert two years previously. Engineered by Larry's doting sister, Angie, their young love seems to blossom until Skye is taken away to Stornoway by her single mother and forbidden to contact Larry. Devastated, Larry then goes down with COVID-19 and ends up on a ventilator where his life hangs in the balance whilst, disconnected from his body, he relives past lives over seven thousand years. These stories all relate to major advances in the history of medicine, from the trephining of skulls (drilling holes in the head) seven thousand years ago to the recent discovery of CRISPR technology to remove harmful genes which, when Larry recovers, and he meets up again with Skye, might provide a solution to the true reason for her mother's decision to separate the young lovers: a genetic condition which was the reason Skye's musician father abandoned her and her mother. The love story is interwoven with stories from the past that highlight breakthroughs that changed medicine forever, each complemented by a factual account and illustrated by the author's own, often heartfelt, experiences as a hospital doctor.
Autorenporträt
Oliver Eade, awoke early one morning with a ghost story in his head. He got up, wrote it down and went back to sleep. The following day he was horrified to see how badly written it was. A month later another story appeared and he spent more time with it. Then another and another...he's now written over a hundred, of which more than fifty have been published. He is particularly fond of that magical space between reality and fantasy, into and out of which children slip so easily. His debut young reader's novel, Moon Rabbit (Delancey Press, 2009), links Scotland with mythological China (Oliver's wife is Chinese) through the friendship of two children and was a winner of the Writers' And Artists' 207 New Novel Competition and long-listed for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize of 2008. The sequel, Monkey King's Revenge, came out in 2011. A dark fantasy set in North America, Northwards, was published in 2010. Moon Rabbit was a winner of a Writers and Artists' Yearbook New Novel Competition and long-listed for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize. Monkey King's Revenge is a finalist for the children's section of The People's Book Prize, 2012. Oliver also writes for teenagers and adults and had a play staged in Scotland in 2012. His first adult novel, A Single Petal, won the 2012 Local Legend Spiritual Writing Competition. Before a ghost story changed his life, his daytime job was being a hospital doctor.