{"product_id":"the-atomics","title":"The Atomics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYou cannot run away from what haunts you\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED: Caledonia Novel Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"9bc0a9a3-4b70-3049-4c8a-44e7f2b6d890\"]' data-w-id=\"9bc0a9a3-4b70-3049-4c8a-44e7f2b6d890\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"9bc0a9a3-4b70-3049-4c8a-44e7f2b6d890\"]' data-w-id=\"9bc0a9a3-4b70-3049-4c8a-44e7f2b6d890\"\u003eMidsummer, 1968. When Frank Banner and his wife Gail move to the Suffolk coast to work at a newly built nuclear power station, they are hoping to leave violence and pain behind them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"8a88a956-1ca2-e36c-3074-cc027402745a\"]' data-w-id=\"8a88a956-1ca2-e36c-3074-cc027402745a\"\u003eGail wants a baby but Frank is only concerned with spending time in the gleaming reactor core of the Seton One power station. Their new neighbours are also ‘Atomics’ – part of the power station community. But Frank takes a dislike to the boorish, predatory Maynard. And when the other man begins to pursue a young woman who works in the power station’s medical centre, Frank decides to intervene.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"0c9f5c0e-a3c8-036f-b0af-8a228c188105\"]' data-w-id=\"0c9f5c0e-a3c8-036f-b0af-8a228c188105\"\u003eAs the sun beats relentlessly upon this bleak landscape, his demons return. A vicious and merciless voice tells him he has an obligation to protect the young woman and Frank knows just how to do it. Radiation will make him stronger, radiation will turn him into a hero...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"b16dd3fb-4e49-5aef-fbd6-4dd52488ab05\"]' data-w-id=\"b16dd3fb-4e49-5aef-fbd6-4dd52488ab05\"\u003e\u003cem data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"9b265746-47b5-2209-a327-ee254c691680\"]' data-w-id=\"9b265746-47b5-2209-a327-ee254c691680\"\u003eThe Atomics\u003c\/em\u003e is a gothic story of madness, revenge and Uranium-235.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"b16dd3fb-4e49-5aef-fbd6-4dd52488ab05\"]' data-w-id=\"b16dd3fb-4e49-5aef-fbd6-4dd52488ab05\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘A dark, creepy, shocking book that reminds me of early Ian McEwan...really very affecting’ \u003cstrong\u003eJenn Ashworth\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘A\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eterrifically compulsive slice of post-war domestic noir: a vivid psychological thriller that unfolds into a strange and powerful study of male violence’ \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Hughes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘A brilliantly dark and compelling debut novel. Completely drew me in and I suspect it’s going to haunt me for a while’ \u003cstrong\u003eSusanna Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Very, very good’\u003cstrong\u003e Johnnie Wright, BBC Radio Suffolk\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePaperback: 256pp\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePublished: Lightning (May 2021)\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003eISBN: 9781785632327\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eye Books Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32569218662462,"sku":null,"price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1271\/4023\/products\/TheAtomics_2ndDraft-10.jpg?v=1604397343","url":"https:\/\/www.eyebooksgroup.com\/products\/the-atomics","provider":"Eye Books Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}