Book description
Liverpool, 1939. Lonely historian Tom Baines is at work on a study of
the city's architectural past but the ominous news from Europe,
together with his burgeoning friendship with Richard, a young
photographer, and his beautiful wife, Bella, are proving a
distraction.
When the bombings begin, Tom joins up as 'rescue man', retrieving
the wounded and dying from the ruins of buildings, but the love affair
he embarks on soon leads him into a very different kind of danger.
Anthony Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1964. Since 1998 he has been
the film critic of the
Independent.
His first novel,
The Rescue Man
, won the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award in 2009. His second
novel,
Half of the Human Race,
was published in 2011 and was selected for the Channel 4 TV Bookclub.
His most recent book is
The Streets.
