Caroline Galwey

Scarlet Day (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Cambridge University in the 1980s keeps to time-honoured traditions, but the chill winds of austerity are blowing. So when his department gets a huge endowment from an American corporation, Graham Dowland, a secretive historian who never returns his library books, hopes for some funding for his research into lost manuscripts. Graham needs a break. His colleagues think his work is pointless, his mother has Alzheimer's, and his best student wants to drop her course and become a pop singer. As if that were not enough, his department's infighting over its new money ends in an unexplained death: the 'scarlet' worn at a degree ceremony takes on a whole new meaning.
Graham wants above all to follow the trail of a priceless Irish gospel book that disappeared in Bohemia in the seventeenth century. Investigating a murder seems a dangerous distraction. Yet once he finds out the secret of an eccentric refugee, and penetrates the alleyways of cold-war Prague, it starts to look as if murder and manuscript are part of the same plot.
Back in Cambridge, the Fenland floodwaters are rising. As his carefully controlled academic routine descends into mayhem, Graham learns to trust his real friends, and finds that only a fully lived life can give the study of history its meaning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Caroline Galwey
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311505125
• Artikelnr.: 70044629

Autorenporträt

Caroline Galwey is a historian and a stickler for accuracy. She needs to write fiction to use up the ideas that are too outrageous, speculative or romantic to put into her academic work which is mostly about early medieval Brittany.

She lives just outside the M25 with her husband, children (when they're there) and two goldfish, and loves choral singing, cooking, Cornwall, and central Europe.

Scarlet Day is her first free-standing novel. Anyone who has ever sat in a hushed, tranquil library and wondered whether there might be sinister goings-on behind the 'Staff Only' doors will know where this story comes from.