Bøker av Liz Jensen

An environmental disaster movie of a thriller.

An environmental disaster movie of a thriller, from the celebrated author of The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

A spellbinding tale about what the human heart can inflict and the mind endure

In fin-de-siecle Copenhagen, part-time prostitute Charlotte and her lumpen sidekick, Fru Schleswig, have taken on jobs as cleaning ladies to tide them over the harsh winter of 1897. But the home of their new employer soon reveals itself to be riddled with dark secrets. The hapless duo discover a whole new world of glass, and impossible romance.

Since the year all British women became infertile, Bobby Sullivan's veterinary clinic has been packed with primate 'children' and, speaking as an alpha male, he's sick to death of them. Hoping to reincarnate himself, he moves north, but finds there is no escape from the Darwinian imperative - or from the sexual pull of the twins Rose and Blanche.

With only a schizophrenic mother and a militantly hostile sister for backup, Hazel Sugden, food-splattered mum and queen of low self-esteem, is palpably unfit to save the future of mankind. But, when embryology, psychiatry and religion clash over the miracle designer drug Genetic Choice, the trio are propelled into action with comic results.

When Gloria met Ron, he was an American pilot who thought nothing of getting hit by shrapnel in the cockpit. She was working in a munitions factory in Bristol during the Blitz, but found time to grab what she wanted. But war has an effect on people. This work explores the dark impulses of women whose war crimes are committed on the home front.