The Blind Light - Evers, Stuart
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Shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award 2021 'Extraordinary' - Spectator 'Powerful' - Guardian 'Spellbinding' - The Tablet
As the 1950s draw to a close, and the Cold War escalates, the shape of Drummond Moore's life is changed beyond measure when he strikes up an unlikely friendship with James Carter, a rich and well-connected fellow national serviceman. Carter leads him to Doom Town - an army base that seeks to recreate the effects of a nuclear war - where he meets Gwen, a barmaid with whom he shares an instant connection.
Set over sixty years of British history, The Blind Light by Stuart…mehr

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Shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award 2021
'Extraordinary' - Spectator
'Powerful' - Guardian
'Spellbinding' - The Tablet

As the 1950s draw to a close, and the Cold War escalates, the shape of Drummond Moore's life is changed beyond measure when he strikes up an unlikely friendship with James Carter, a rich and well-connected fellow national serviceman. Carter leads him to Doom Town - an army base that seeks to recreate the effects of a nuclear war - where he meets Gwen, a barmaid with whom he shares an instant connection.

Set over sixty years of British history, The Blind Light by Stuart Evers is the compelling story of one family as they deal with the personal and political fallout of their times.
Autorenporträt
Stuart Evers' debut, Ten Stories About Smoking, won the London Book Award in 2011; his highly acclaimed novel If This is Home followed in 2012 and his collection Your Father Sends His Love was shortlisted for the 2016 Edge Hill Short Story Prize. In 2017, Evers won the Eccles British Library Writer's Award - one of Europe's richest prizes for a work in progress. His work has appeared in three editions of the Best British Short Stories, as well as Granta, the White Review, Prospect and on Radio 4. The Blind Light is his second novel. Originally from the North West, he lives in London.
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A thoughtful and powerful study of the corrosive effects of fear, the damage we do to ourselves and our loved ones when danger is all we can see . . . disconcertingly timely Guardian