Half Life of Valery K THE TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH
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Natasha Pulley’s first novel The Watchmaker of Filigree Street was a Sunday Times bestseller, won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. Her second novel, The Bedlam Stacks was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, while subsequent novels The Lost Future of Pepperharrow and The Kingdoms were published to widespread critical acclaim, cementing Natasha’s reputation as one of the most original and exciting new young writers at work. She lives in Bristol.
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This <b>clever, gripping</b> novel is based on the true story of a nuclear research facility at Chelyabinsk, where an accident in 1957 caused acute radiation sickness in the area. <b>Natasha Pulley’s wry, intelligent style works well to depict the Soviet world of lies and secrets</b>, and Valery’s naive goodness is a mirror to the murky world he inhabits
The Times, Book of the Month
<b>An inventive, mind-bending book</b>
Sunday Times: Best Books of 2022: Historical Fiction
<b>High drama meets gallows humour</b> on a foundation of the real life 1957 Kyshym disaster in Russia
Strong Words, Books of the Year 2022
<b>History and imagination collide to stunning effect in this utterly beguiling and addictive novel</b>. Unflinching, darkly funny, and all too easy to believe, <i>The Half Life Of Valery K</i> is <b>the kind of book that haunts the reader long after the last page is turned</b>
- Erin Kelly,
Pulley adds to her impressive oeuvre with <b>another exquisite novel</b>. Many of the author’s trademarks are on display here: <b>a finely-drawn period setting, a vein of dark humour, a plot blending historical fact and fiction, and a protagonist seeking to do the right thing in the face of a brutal political machine. An illuminating and immersive historical tale</b>
- Vaseem Khan,
<b>Beautifully written</b> and <b>perfectly paced</b>, <b>this is another triumph from my favourite living author</b>
- Katie Lumsden,
<b>Brilliantly conceived</b>, <b>vibrantly realized</b>, and <b>complexly suspenseful</b>
Booklist
Her dark humor, which turns on the blind faith given to Soviet authority figures despite their outlandish claims, combines with complex characters and a clear understanding of radiation science to yield an <b>explosive </b>blend. The <b>chilling </b>result feels all too plausible
Publishers Weekly
Pulley’s <b>impeccable </b>prose,<b> vivid and shot through with tenderness</b>, lends a glint of lightness to this unsettling story
Daily Mail
A timely insight into the Soviet regime in the 1960s, it is never bleak, but <b>tender</b>, <b>elegant </b>and so very <b>clever </b>... <b>It’s a story I won’t forget</b>
- Tor Udall,
<b>Engrossing</b>
Independent
Wildly inventive, full of eeriness and magic, and fiendishly intricate plots
The Times on The Lost Future of Pepperharrow
An awe-inspiring feat of imagination and passion
Catriona Ward on The Kingdoms
Lavish world-building and breakneck plotting … Clear a weekend and let yourself be absorbed
New York Times Book Review on The Kingdoms
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Om bidragsyterne
Natasha Pulley’s first novel The Watchmaker of Filigree Street was a Sunday Times bestseller, won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. Her second novel, The Bedlam Stacks was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, while subsequent novels The Lost Future of Pepperharrow and The Kingdoms were published to widespread critical acclaim, cementing Natasha’s reputation as one of the most original and exciting new young writers at work. She lives in Bristol.
@natasha_pulley