Book description
Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over
a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively
in digital form. This is a chilling tale by Helen Dunmore.
'It was nothing, she tells herself, but her body knows better.'
Florence lives in the country, lapped by miles and miles of
darkness. She feels safe there - until a noise wakes her in the middle
of the night.
Protection is a short story by bestselling author Helen
Dunmore that will cause your skin to prickle and make you ask yourself
how far you would go to protect your family.
Helen Dunmore has published eleven novels with Penguin:
Zennor in Darkness
, which won the McKitterick Prize;
Burning Bright
;
A Spell of Winter
, which won the Orange Prize;
Talking to the Dead
;
Your Blue-Eyed Boy
;
With Your Crooked Heart
;
The Siege
, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award
and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002;
Mourning Ruby
;
House of Orphans
;
Counting the Stars
and
The Betrayal
which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. She is also a poet,
children's novelist and short-story writer.
