Bøker av Sally Brooks

The explosive follow-up to Her Shadow.Just one year on from a violent attack that nearly killed her, MP Sara Lorenzo finds herself leader of the opposition. With the United Kingdom in the shadow of division, her promise is to bring people together. Within weeks of taking up the challenge, a major terrorist attack hits central London and she is forced to act, for the benefit of the nation and is thrust into the spotlight. Meanwhile, the impact of her previous trauma is taking its toll on her relationship with her girlfriend, Cameron. Press attention places them both under the microscope, leaving Sara with big decisions to make, and a question mark over their future as a couple. What she doesn't know is that there are forces at play which may take that decision out of her hands, and not only damage the country, but tear them apart forever.

In 1959, Nancy's life changes dramatically when her family moves to a new town, Stevenage. Now there is room for a piano, Nancy loses herself in an imagined past of Mozart's lesser known sister, while making unexpected discoveries of her own inscrutable mother's history. In 1989 the piano becomes a fixture in a women's community centre in the town, in a time of personal strife for Martha and her friends. The politics of the era threaten the existence of the centre, and the future of this group of women. A troubled young man buys the piano in 1997 and places it in his sparse flat at a time of emotional turmoil, as he becomes involved in the party-political life of a town at the heart of the general election campaign. By the time school girls Tamsin and Lauren find it in 2011, it has been long abandoned. They bring it back to life in a bid to forget the grief that holds them together.

Biofortification has been heralded as a uniquely sustainable solution to the problem of micronutrient deficiency or 'hidden hunger'. Through an analysis of international rice biofortification efforts across the US, Philippines and China, this book provides an important critique of such goal-oriented, top-down approaches.