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Quies

Jack Collett

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A drama set on the north Cornish coast that celebrates the strength of family and the power of the human
spirit, transcending wartime allegiances.
Celebrates the strength of three generations of female characters.
A story set against the evils and chance of war and political intrigue.

Spring 1940 – a dense sea fog envelopes the north Cornish coast just south of Trevose Head and the
treacherous Quies rocks. Lurking nearby is a German submarine, stranded after its engines failed. When two
local children row their small boat to investigate this strange shape in the water, a chain of events is unleashed
that will change lives forever.

Summer 1985 – shortly after leaving a Test match at Lord’s, the quiet and solitary Frank Fox stumbles on
what appears to be an attack on a young girl in a park in St John’s Wood. Despite his age and aching bones,
Frank overcomes the assailant and rescues the child. But what seems like a random event is not what it seems
as Frank is thrown into a dark political underworld of terror.

Can these two seemingly separate, distant worlds meet? Quies is the story of a family destroyed and by war
and rebuilt, decades later, by extraordinary circumstance.

Jack Collett has spent twenty-five years teaching in the west country. He lives in rural Wiltshire and spends
his holidays in north Cornwall. He has two daughters. Written mostly in periods of COVID lockdown, this is his
first novel.

Local interest: Cornwall

Publication Date: 28th February 2024 £9.99 ISBN: 9781805142676
Thema subject category: FV – Historical fiction
paperback 198 x 129 mm 320 pp Portrait Author location: Wiltshire

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