A Room Swept White
A totally gripping and unguessable thriller
$36.53
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2011
Summary
TV producer Fliss Benson receives an anonymous card at work. The card has sixteen numbers on it, arranged in four rows of four - numbers that mean nothing to her.
On the same day, Fliss finds out she’s going to be working on a documentary about miscarriages of justice involving cot-death mothers wrongly accused of murder. The documentary will focus on three women: Helen Yardley, Sarah Jaggard and Rachel Hines. All three women are now free, and the doctor who did her best to send them …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340980644 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0340980648 |
| Author: | Sophie Hannah |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2011 |
| Weight: | 327g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 31mm |
| Series: | Culver Valley Crime |
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Critics Review
Another deliciously tangled web of clues and twists…a fascinating mystery told in fine detail with great skill. - Australian Women’s Weekly
Sophie Hannah’s novel teases out our notions about justice, showing that, ultimately, it is always in fallible human hands - Notebook Magazine Hannah builds great suspense as she carefully handles this difficult subject. - Sunday Mail Brisbane This is a haunting story that will stay with you long after you put it down. - The West AustralianAbout The Author
Sophie Hannah
Sophie Hannah is a bestselling crime fiction writer and poet. Her psychological thrillers Little Face, Hurting Distance, The Point of Rescue, The Other Half Lives, A Room Swept White, Lasting Damage and Kind of Cruel have received critical acclaim and have been translated into more than twenty languages.
Sophie’s books have been listed for multiple industry awards. Little Face was longlisted for the 2007 Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and the IMPAC Award, Hurting Distance was longlisted for the 2008 Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, and The Other Half Lives was shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers’ Book of the Year Award and a Barry Award. The Point of Rescue and The Other Half Lives have been adapted for television as Case Sensitive, starring Olivia Williams and Darren Boyd.
Sophie’s fifth collection of poetry, Pessimism for Beginners, was the Poetry Book Society’s Winter Choice in 2007 and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Award, and in 2004 she won first prize in the Daphne Du Maurier Festival Short Story Competition for her psychological suspense story The Octopus Nest. Sophie’s poetry is studied at GCSE, A-level and degree level across the UK.
From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and between 1999 and 2001 she was a fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. She is currently a Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and two children.
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