The Week at World’s End: ‘The Queen of Historical Fiction at her finest.’ Guardian

What would you do if you found a body in the woodshed?

1962, London, the seven days of the Cuban Missile Crisis …

The day Vie finds a girl hiding in the woodshed, her uneventful life on World’s End Close suddenly takes a new turn. The runaway, Anna, claims she’s being poisoned. She needs Vie and her best friend Ray to help …

But with the Cuban Missile Crisis kicking off, and the adults all behaving so strangely, what chance do three children have against poisoners amidst the threat of a third world war?

This enthralling, heartwarming thriller is the perfect novel for our tumultuous times.