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Shadow at Evening
Nuclear disaster in the Channel Islands...
Basking in prosperity, Guernsey is one of the most peaceful places on earth. But the island lies only twenty-four miles from the French mainland, and at the nearest point on that mainland, Cap Flamanville, is a nuclear electricity generating plant, while just north of Flamanville, at Cap de la Hague, is a nuclear waste reprocessing plant. These plants shelter behind massive security systems and fail-safe procedures. An accident is unthinkable, while sabotage would have to be on a scale which is next to unimaginable. And yet…
On a bright summer’s evening, the inhabitants of Guernsey find themselves face to face with the unthinkable. This is the story of three traumatic days when a community which has endured, in many ways unchanged, for centuries, suddenly finds itself hovering on the brink of destruction, by a cloud no-one can see, hear, or feel.
Above all it is the story of two people, the Guernsey vet Liz Cobb, and the American banker Jackson Ridgway, thrown together by circumstances they had never envisaged in their worst nightmares, discovering together the true meaning of love, in a world which may be about to end.
Diana Bachmann was born in Guernsey in 1950. She has three children and six grandchildren, plus a large family of stepchildren and step-grandchildren. Having lived in the Bahamas and Spain with her second husband, bestselling author Christopher Nicole, she has since returned to Guernsey. Inspired by her own experiences as a child evacuee during the Nazi occupation of the island, she authored the popular Guernsey Saga series.
Basking in prosperity, Guernsey is one of the most peaceful places on earth. But the island lies only twenty-four miles from the French mainland, and at the nearest point on that mainland, Cap Flamanville, is a nuclear electricity generating plant, while just north of Flamanville, at Cap de la Hague, is a nuclear waste reprocessing plant. These plants shelter behind massive security systems and fail-safe procedures. An accident is unthinkable, while sabotage would have to be on a scale which is next to unimaginable. And yet…
On a bright summer’s evening, the inhabitants of Guernsey find themselves face to face with the unthinkable. This is the story of three traumatic days when a community which has endured, in many ways unchanged, for centuries, suddenly finds itself hovering on the brink of destruction, by a cloud no-one can see, hear, or feel.
Above all it is the story of two people, the Guernsey vet Liz Cobb, and the American banker Jackson Ridgway, thrown together by circumstances they had never envisaged in their worst nightmares, discovering together the true meaning of love, in a world which may be about to end.
Diana Bachmann was born in Guernsey in 1950. She has three children and six grandchildren, plus a large family of stepchildren and step-grandchildren. Having lived in the Bahamas and Spain with her second husband, bestselling author Christopher Nicole, she has since returned to Guernsey. Inspired by her own experiences as a child evacuee during the Nazi occupation of the island, she authored the popular Guernsey Saga series.
352 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 10, 2019
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Diana Bachmann
11 books8 followersDiana Mary Bachmann married with the also writer Christopher Nicole on 8 May 1982. They live in Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK, where she have located many of her books. The marriage also collabored under the pseudonym Max Marlow.
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