The Week at World's End: 'The Queen of Historical Fiction at her finest.' Guardian

Description

What would you do if you found a body in the woodshed? 1962, London, the seven days of the Cuban Missile Crisis . . . The day Vie finds a girl hiding in the woodshed, her uneventful life on World's End Close suddenly takes a new turn. The runaway, Anna, claims she's being poisoned. She needs Vie and her best friend Ray to help . . . But with the Cuban Missile Crisis kicking off, and the adults all behaving so strangely, what chance do three children have against poisoners amidst the threat of a third world war? This enthralling, heartwarming thriller is the perfect novel for our tumultuous times.

Emma Carroll was a secondary school English teacher for many years. Thisis Emma's tenth novel for Faber; she has also written the highly-acclaimed Frost Hollow Hall, The Girl Who Walked on Air, In Darkling Wood, The Snow Sister, Strange Star, Letters from the Lighthouse, Secrets of a Sun King, When we were Warriors andThe Somerset Tsunami. She lives in the Somerset hills with her husband and two terriers.