The Reckoning Reading

Blackwell Bookshop
South Bridge, Edinburgh
6.30pm
Free but ticketed

Blackwell Bookshop takes great pleasure in celebrating the launch of young adult/teenage fiction author James Jauncey's latest novel The Reckoning.

James’ last novel The Witness was shortlisted for the 2008 Royal Mail Scottish Children’s Awards, the 2008 Highland Children’s Book Award, the 2009 Kernow Youth Book Award and the 2009 Angus Book Awards as well as being recommended on Richard and Judy’s Book Club.

His current work The Reckoning begins with a young Fin thinking about the day when he can move to the mainland, and escape the misery at home. His sister got away but now no one has heard from her in two years. Fin's thoughts are interrupted by the sound of a car on the bridge above him. He hears doors slam, voices, a scream and then, for a brief moment, he glimpses a figure falling through the fog. It's a teenage girl, and she dies in Fin's arms.

Did the dead girl jump or was she thrown? Sceptical of the official suicide verdict, Fin is determined to find the truth, a hunt that will lead him closer to his missing sister and to a shocking secret at the heart of his island community. Tied in with Fin's story The Reckoning touches on large topics such as extremism and terrorism but is, above all, a compelling and intriguing literary mystery.

This event is ticketed, but tickets are FREE. Tickets are available from the front desk at Blackwell. For more information please contact Claire Leach on 0131 622 8206 or events.edinburgh@blackwell.co.uk

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  Standing on the beach watching the mist roll in off the sea, Fin is thinking about the day when he can move to the mainland, & escape the misery at home. Fin's thoughts are interrupted by the sound of a car on the bridge above him. He hears doors slam, voices, a scream, & then he sees a figure falling through the fog.