Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
Simon & Schuster UK (2023), Edition: 1, 512 pages
Description
Imagine you're holding a book in your hands. It's a tte-bche novel, beloved of 19th-century bookmakers. It is two books: two intertwined stories printed back-to-back. Open the book and the first novella begins. It ends at the middle of the book. Then flip the book over, head to tail, and read the second story in the opposite direction.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
512 p.; 9.21 inches
ISBN
1398514497 / 9781398514492
Local notes
1880s England. On the bleak island of Ray, off the Essex coast, an idealistic young doctor, Simeon Lee, is called from London to treat his dying cousin, Parson Oliver Hawes, who lives in the only house on the island – Turnglass House. He believes he is being poisoned and secrets are found in Oliver’s tête-bêche journal, where one side tells a very different story from the other.
1930s California. elebrated author Oliver Tooke is found dead in his writing hut off the coast of the family residence, Turnglass House. His friend Ken Kourian doesn’t believe that Oliver would take his own life. His investigations lead him to the mysterious kidnapping of Oliver’s brother when they were children, but to discover the truth, Ken must decipher clues hidden in Oliver’s final book, a tête-bêche novel – which is about a young doctor called Simeon Lee.
Bound tete-beche. Signed by the author, one of 1500 copies, with timeturners stencilled on sprayed page edges.
1930s California. elebrated author Oliver Tooke is found dead in his writing hut off the coast of the family residence, Turnglass House. His friend Ken Kourian doesn’t believe that Oliver would take his own life. His investigations lead him to the mysterious kidnapping of Oliver’s brother when they were children, but to discover the truth, Ken must decipher clues hidden in Oliver’s final book, a tête-bêche novel – which is about a young doctor called Simeon Lee.
Bound tete-beche. Signed by the author, one of 1500 copies, with timeturners stencilled on sprayed page edges.