"The latest novel is an enthralling tale....elaborate and poignant tragic plot" Publishers Weekly. "Unputdownable...does for post September 11 era what John le Carre did for the Cold War" Time Out New York "One of the most powerful and innovative writers in English today" Times Literary Supplement Lowell tries not to think about the past and the hijaking that killed his mother. Samantha, on the other hand, cannot let go. As a child she survived the hijaking of Air France Flight 64, and as an adult she obsessively digs for answers. But in this murky world of endless aliases and surveillance, who can be trusted? When does the quest for truth become a dangerous obsession? And what difference can the truth make?

This literary thriller emanates from a fictional historical event, the 1987 hijacking of Air France Flight 64 and its subsequent explosion with hundreds of passengers on board. Written in the wake of 9/11, Hospital's imaginative, frightening work is deeply informed by it, conveying in her fiction a jitteriness that feels familiar, as well as the murkiness of terror networks that betray no more solidity than liquid. The protagonists here are two survivors of the act of terror, which, years later, still haunts, obsesses, and imperils them. Sean Mangan is generally a competent reader, effectively adapting to Hospital's varying pacing and changes in points of view. Occasionally, he lapses into artificial accents but, for the most part, is true to the intensity of this disturbing novel. M.O. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine

 

This latest novel is an enthralling tale … an elaborate and poignantly tragic plot

 

One of the most powerful and innovative writers in English today

 

Written in the wake of 9/11, Hospital's imaginative, frightening work is deeply informed by it, conveying in her fiction a jitteriness that feels familiar, as well as the murkiness of terror networks that betray no more solidity than liquid ... Sean Mangan effectively adapt[s] to Hospital's varying pacing and changes in points of view.

 

Janette Turner Hospital was born in Melbourne in 1942. In the 1960s she moved to the US. She has lectured in universities in Australia, Canada, the US, UK and Europe. She is the author of five other internationally acclaimed novels: The Ivory Swing (1982), winner of Canada's Seal Award; Borderline (1985); Charades (1988); The Last Magician (1992); and Oyster (1996). Janette is currently Professor of English and Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of South Carolina, in the US.

Due Preparations For the Plague by Janette Turner Hospital
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