A01=Jude Cook
Author_Jude Cook
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forthcoming
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- ISBN 9781784633875
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 07 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Salt Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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When Laura Cameron, a philosophy professor at a London university, is found dead in a bizarre echo of the Reeva Steenkamp case, the questions are myriad. Her friend and colleague, Esther Luck, is as shocked as everyone else.
But Esther knows more than she’s letting on. After two years battling illness, her notions of what makes life worth living, of what her future holds, have changed utterly. Held in a tense web of intrigue between Laura’s widower Jack, her ex Michel, and her conventional family, Esther is given the chance of new life on borrowed time as the mystery of Laura’s death deepens.
What follows is an exploration of guilt, mortality, freedom, time and the brilliant and beautiful puzzle of being alive.
Jude Cook is the author of the novels Byron Easy (2013) and Jacob’s Advice (2020). He reviews fiction for The Guardian, The Spectator, Literary Review, and the TLS, and his short stories and essays have appeared in The London Magazine, The Moth, The Tangerine, Tamarind, Confingo, and elsewhere. In 2025 was a judge for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for small presses. In the same year, he launched a new press, Conduit Books. He holds a PhD in the Contemporary Novel from Kent Canterbury University and is an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Westminster. He lives in London.
