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“Valery K has a single, linear timeframe. It opens in a Siberian prison camp in 1963. Valery K, a scientist, is told by the commandant that he’s being sent to a nuclear research facility. He has no idea why, but his old boss who heads the team there has obviously asked for him. There are layers of hypocrisy, and everyone is telling lies. Gradually we get to understand what it was that caused the meltdown, the huge explosion that wiped out the original facility and caused the radiation damage. Scientifically, it’s brilliant. And it’s right on a knife edge. Is Valery going to survive? Is he going to be sent back to the camp? So this book is an eco-thriller, although it’s not looking at the climate emergency. For me, it looks deeply at the root cause of why we are where we are.” Read more...
Manda Scott, Novelist
