Description
Full of heartbreak, revulsion and black humour, a scientist desperately searches for a cure to a zombie virus while also hiding a monumental secret - her undead husband.
Kesta's life is turned upside down when her husband, Tim, is one of the last to be bitten in a zombie pandemic.
A scientist by day, she spends her evenings in group therapy with others who have also lost a loved one to the virus. The country is in a period of respite, seemingly having rounded up everyone affected, and Project Dawn is working hard to find a vaccine to make sure the infection can't reappear.
But Kesta has a secret.
Tim may have been bitten, but he's not quite dead yet. In fact, he's tied to a bed in her spare room. And she's made him a promise: find a cure, bring him back.
After finally joining Project Dawn, Kesta juggles intensive work days under the microscope alongside Tim's care, slipping him stolen drugs to keep him docile, knowing she is hiding the only zombie left - the very thing that could put everyone in danger again.
But a cure seems increasingly out of reach. Plus Kesta is running out of drugs - and time - as she continues to evade Tim's discovery and confront issue after issue in the lab. She'll have to dig deep to save the person she loves.
About the Author
Leigh Radford trained as a broadcast journalist. She produced and presented arts and entertainment content and documentaries for UK commercial radio, BBC Radio, Time Out, The Times and The Sun. A former book publicist, she is a 2023 graduate of Faber Academy. She is currently developing content for film and television through her production company, Kenosha Kickers. One Yellow Eye is her debut novel.
Reviews
You wouldn't expect a zombie novel to have so much to say about love. Leigh Radford's suspenseful One Yellow Eye is driven by various fears - the fear of a virus that could return to rip the world apart, the fear of a terrible wrongdoing being discovered - but in the end the zombies take a backseat to the greatest horror of all: losing the one closest to our heart. -- Mason Coile, author of William
Complex and utterly brilliant, One Yellow Eye had me in a chokehold from the first word to the last as I was swept up into Kesta and Tim's harrowing journey, navigating the fine line between love and selfishness; grief and obsession. Leigh Radford has created a genre all her own (fitting for a tale about zombies) that was darkly comedic, gruesome and compassionate - to say I absolutely loved this beautifully macabre story is an understatement -- Ashley Tate, bestselling author of Twenty Seven Minutes
Book Information
ISBN 9781035048274
Author Leigh Radford
Format Hardback
Page Count 352
Imprint Tor Nightfire
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Details
Subtitle: |
A devastating, macabre love story |
Imprint: |
Tor Nightfire |
