For Adults
Faber are offering 5 lucky library reading groups the chance to win a set of up to 10 finished copies each of The Voices of the Dead by Nicola Upson, in which a newly discovered grave in the Welsh hills delivers messages from the dead. This book is part of a wider historical crime fiction series starring Josephine Tey as an amateur detective.
To enter, please contact phoebe.williams@faber.co.uk and let us know why you think your library group would enjoy reading The Voices of the Dead. The deadline for applications is 30 September. For a taster of the reading experience, please download the chapter sampler provided.
If you’re successful, we’d love to hear what your group thinks about the book and for you to share your reviews on key retailer sites.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Summer, 1941. As London is devastated by the Blitz, the National Gallery’s most precious paintings find a new sanctuary in the slate mines of north Wales, supervised by Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose. Vacationing in the area is Josephine Tey, as well as Noel Coward who is preparing his defiant new play, Blithe Spirit, in which Margaret Rutherford plays a clairvoyant.
When a woman’s grave is discovered amid the debris of a roof fall in the mines, Archie and Josephine are plunged into a forty-year-old mystery, and a death that threatens to tear apart the close-knit Welsh community. Secrets begin to emerge, and no-one is immune to the voices of the dead.
‘Always a delight.’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘A class above the usual crime fiction’ INDEPENDENT
‘A distinguished series.’ P. D. JAMES
