Catalogue Record Detail

Advanced search

Expand search

Language Language

English

0571278647

Apple tree yard.

Author: Doughty, Louise.

Publication year: 2014

Language: English

Media class: Paperback

Publisher: London : Faber & Faber, 2014.

ISBN: 0571278647 9780571278640 (pbk): 7.99

Notes:

Originally published: 2013.

'Safety and security are commodities you can sell in return for excitement, but you can never buy them back.' Yvonne Carmichael is a geneticist, a scientist renowned in her field but one day, she makes the most irrational of decisions. While she is giving evidence to a Select Committee at the Houses of Parliament, she meets a man and has sex with him in the secluded Chapel in the Crypt beneath the Great Hall of Westminster. It's the beginning of a reckless liaison, but there is more to her lover than is at first apparent - as Yvonne discovers when the affair spins out of control and leads inexorably to violence.