The
Saved
She thought his death would destroy her … but his return was far worse.
Nancy and Calder are moving from London to an isolated slate island, off the west coast of Scotland. Nancy is focussed on their new beginning, but is increasingly unsettled by the stark island, the mysterious inhabitants and Calder’s dark past, which he’s kept hidden from her.
Then one of Nancy’s nightmares plays out in real life: she finds Calder’s boat upturned in the bay, his body adrift in the icy water. He’s clinically dead with no heartbeat. But miraculously the doctors manage to bring him back to life. Everyone think he has made a full recovery, but Nancy doesn’t recognise the man who has come back from the dead. She is now living with a stranger. As secrets, lies and bodies begin to wash up on the island, Nancy must come to terms with the fact that despite the fresh start, sometimes the slate can never be wiped clean.
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‘Relentlessly addictive.’
SOPHIE HANNAH
‘Enthralling – but keep the lights on!’
DENZIL MEYRICK
‘Unputdownable.’
JO BRAND
‘Deeply Chilling’
HOLLY SEDDON
About Liz
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Liz Webb’s debut novel comes out May 2022. She has drawn from her wide experience as a Radio Drama producer in crafting the story and while this novel is psychological crime, she has employed her experience as a stand up comic to develop a quirky offbeat voice for her lead character.
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Extras
Back from the Dead
I was quite a morbid child. I was obsessed with the concept of ‘not being’. I wasn’t ‘wanting to be dead’, I was merely amazed by the idea that my intense sense of consciousness could ever simply ‘not be’. I used to shut my eyes, hide under the bedclothes and try to imagine ‘not existing’. It was thrilling and horrifying and I could only keep it up for a short time. I later became fascinated by Frankenstein films and then the novel, intrigued by the idea of an inanimate body becoming live.
Writing about What You Don’t Know
New writers are often advised to ‘write what you know’. Which I totally did for my first novel THE DAUGHTER, setting it in North London where I live, and featuring a self-doubting protagonist, who was eerily like me! But for my second novel THE SAVED, I decided to push myself way out of my comfort zone and write about a subject and a place that I knew absolutely nothing about.