Andrew Meehan & Henrietta McKervey: One Star Awake on Violet Hill

One Star Awake, the debut novel from Andrew Meehan is an unusually brilliant  piece of work.

Fast, furious, funny and deeply atmospheric. It is a stunningly inventive novel, following a young woman who, over the course of a hot sticky summer in Paris, having come to in a restaurant bereft of her memories, must solve the puzzle of who she is.

Henrietta McKervey’s skillfully organised and thrilling Violet Hill follows two protagonists living 100 years apart.

In London 1918, Violet Hill, the only female private detective in the city is hired by a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle intent on contacting his dead son. Meanwhile, a century later, Susanna - a Super-recogniser, an elite police officer with extraordinary powers of recognition begins to dig into the past lives of the old tenants of the house she rents on Primrose Hill. It’s not long before the past begins to untangle.