Specimen Days Staunch Book Prize Nominee (2020) and the meaning of family

and the meaning of family

The perpetrator had been dubbed “Shoe Man” and was believed to have raped five women before murdering his sixth victim and vanishing

and a brilliantly plotted revenge that shatters the elegant world of the Old Masters - each story is a remarkable tour de force

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Specimen Days Staunch Book Prize Nominee (2020) and the meaning of familyLucas, Catherine, Simon: three characters meet time and again in the three linked narratives that form Specimen Days. The first, a science fiction of the past, tells of a boy whose brother was devoured by the machine he operated. The second is a noirish thriller set in our century, as a police psychologist attempts to track down a group of terrorists. And the third and final strand accompanies two strange beings into the future. A novel of connecting