His coldest winter
By: Derek Beaven
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780007151103
Subjects: Fiction; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Scientists
Description: Suspense fiction. On Boxing Day 1962 it began to snow. Over the next two months England froze. It was the coldest winter since 1740. The sea iced over. Cars could be driven across the Thames. Riding home from London in that first snowfall, on the powerful motorbike he has been given for Christmas, seventeen-year-old Alan Rae has a brush with death. Immediately he meets a girl, Cynthia, who will change his life. But someone else is equally preoccupied with her, Geoffrey, a young scientist who works with Alan's father in the race with the Americans and the Russians to develop the microchip. Alan, Geoffrey and Cynthia become linked by a web of secrets which, while the country remains in icy suspension, threatens everything they ever trusted.
Notes: Originally published : Great Britain : Fourth Estate, 2005.