Book description
When three people suffer strokes after seeing dazzling lights over Edinburgh, then awake completely recovered, they're convinced their ordeal is connected to the alien creature discovered on a nearby beach ... an adrenaline-soaked, deeply humane, life-affirming first-contact novel from one of Scotland's most revered authors...
**Selected for BBC 2 Between…
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This I regard as a real find. I was attracted to it as it seems to have a science fiction theme, but the sci-fi element here is rubbish. Stay with me on this, it does not matter.
A group of quirky characters, an unlikely alliance, are brought together as aliens are discovered in the sea and the group are ruthlessly chased by the authorities who regard them as assisting with an alien threat. The chase and the individual problems of the members of the group make it a real page turner. The detail about the aliens is really not important,…
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