Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
The Electric, Hardback Book

The Electric Hardback

Hardback

Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours

Description

'A writer of great energy and fearsome powers of observation' Hilary Mantel, TLSBrighton, 1950s.

When Daisy got married, she knew nothing of a police wife's struggles - the way secrecy and suspicion seep into the home.

But over the years she finds ways to resist. She builds a fierce bond with her children, Linda and Michael, and escapes to the twilit world of the cinema.

By 1998 Linda and Michael are still struggling to cope after their mother's death, a decade before.

Mike finds solace in suburban violence, while Linda invests her hopes in Lucas, her deaf teenage son.

But the appearance of a man from Daisy's past threatens to upend their uneasy peace. Meanwhile, Lucas is obsessed with his support worker, and relearning the sign language he shared with his grandmother.

As the language comes back, so do memories of his early childhood.

But will the truth about the events of ten years ago save his family, or destroy it?The Electric is a brilliantly realised novel about three generations bound together by love, tragedy and the struggle to escape the past.

Information

Other Formats

Save 18%

£16.99

£13.89

Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information