Description:
Helen Oddfellow is hoping for a quiet life as an English lecturer. But trouble knows where to find her. Disturbing poison pen letters lead down dark paths, until she is the only person standing between a lone gunman and a massacre.
Brief description: Anna Sayburn Lane is a novelist, short story writer and storyteller, inspired by the history and contemporary life of London. The Peacock Room is her second novel. She has published short stories in a number of magazines, including Mslexia, Scribble and One Eye Grey, and has worked as a journalist for more than 25 years. Her award-winning story Conservation was described by judge and Booker-longlisted author Alison MacLeod as "a powerful and profound contemporary piece in which one man's story stands for an entire nation's... it's a punch to the heart, a story that will haunt and touch its readers deeply". She lives on the Kent coast.