Smith, Eve
The Waiting Rooms
- ISBN 13:
- 9781913193263
- author:
- Smith, Eve
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Orenda Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 320
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 13 centimetres
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, General, Fiction & Literature,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Waiting Rooms by Eve Smith In a world ravaged by an antibiotic crisis, ordinary infections have become deadly. Hospitals nicknamed "The Waiting Rooms" are a bleak reality for those over seventy, where no one ever gets well. Twenty years after the crisis took hold, Kate embarks on a perilous search for her birth mother, armed with little more than her name and age. As Kate uncovers disturbing facts about her mother's past, she puts her family in danger and risks losing everything. But Kate is not alone in her quest - someone else is also searching for her mother, with sinister intentions. Sweeping from a modern Britain to a pre-crisis South Africa, The Waiting Rooms is a tense, haunting vision of a future that is only a few mutations away. With its richly populated cast of characters and epic scope, this gripping thriller explores the human cost of a world on the brink of collapse.