A Quiet Contagion by Jane Jesmond ISBN 04496751-c020-4aba-ac25-4cedc0815260, 04496751-C020-4ABA-AC25-4CEDC0815260 instant download

A Quiet Contagion by Jane Jesmond ISBN 04496751-c020-4aba-ac25-4cedc0815260, 04496751-C020-4ABA-AC25-4CEDC0815260 instant download

Six decades. Seven people. One unspeakable secret. 1957. A catastrophe occurs at the pharmaceutical lab in Coventry where sixteen-year-old Wilf is working for the summer. A catastrophe that needs to be covered up at all costs. 2017. Phiney is shocked by the death of her grandfather, Wilf, who has jumped from a railway bridge at a Coventry station. Journalist Mat Torrington is the only witness. Left with a swarm of unanswered questions, Phiney, Mat and Wilf's wife, Dora, begin their own enquiries into Wilf's death. It is soon clear that these two events, sixty years apart, are connected - and that Wilf is not the only casualty. But what is the link? And can they find out before any more lives are lost? A Quiet Contagion is a powerfully disquieting mystery for modern times, inspired by the 1957 Coventry polio epidemic and the 1955 Cutter Incident (one of the worst pharmaceutical disasters in US history - which saw thousands...