The Earthquake Bird

A haunting, psychological crime novel, The Earthquake Bird is a debut which has caused an international sensation pre-publication. "Early this morning, several hours before my arrest, I was woken up by an earth tremor. I mention the incident not to suggets that there was a conneciton - that somehow the fault lines in my life came crashing together in a form of a couple of policemen - for in Tokyo we have a quake like this every month. I am simply relating the sequence of events as it happened. It has been an unusual day and I would hate to forget anything..." So begins this chilling novel set in Japan which reveals a murder on its first page and takes its readers into the mind of the chief suspect, Lucy Fly - a young, vulnerable English girl living and working in Tokyo as a translator. As Lucy is interrogated by the police she reveals her past to the reader, and it is a past which is dangerously ambiguous and compromising. A novel imbued with the chill of The Wasp Factory and the shock of The Sculptress, this is the debut of a major new talent.

Winner of John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2001 (UK) Winner of CWA New Blood Dagger 2001 (UK) Winner of Betty Trask Award 2002 (UK)

Susanna Jones has worked as a translator in Tokyo for several years. This is her first novel and she is currently working on a second. She now lives in Brighton and visits Japan regularly.

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