I am THRILLED to be revealing the cover of Will Carver’s new book, The Daves Next Door.
If you are new to my blog/life, Carver has taken my number 1 book spot of the year 3 (!) times in a row. My expectation for whatever the author produces is very, very high. Never been let down.
This cover, from the moment I saw it, had a spot on my ‘special shelf’ cleared ready for it. Don’t believe me? Ask that Folio edition that’s now in my bin*.
Here’s the synopsis of The Daves Next Door, before you get to see the cover in all its glory..
The lives of five strangers collide on a London train carriage, as they become involved in a terrifying event that will change them all forever. A shocking, intensely emotive and wildly original new thriller from Will Carver…
A disillusioned nurse suddenly learns how to care.
An injured young sportsman wakes up to find that he can see only in black and white.
A desperate old widower takes too many pills and believes that two angels have arrived to usher him through purgatory.
Two agoraphobic men called Dave share the symptoms of a brain tumour, and frequently waken their neighbour with their ongoing rows.
Separate lives, running in parallel, destined to collide and then explode.
Like the suicide bomber, riding the Circle Line, day after day, waiting for the right time to detonate, waiting for answers to his questions: Am I God? Am I dead? Will I blow up this train?
Shocking, intensely emotive and wildly original, Will Carver’s The Daves Next Door is an explosive existential thriller and a piercing examination of what it means to be human … or not.
Readied a space on your ‘special shelf’? Good, we can be best friends.
The Daves Next Door publishes on 21 July 2022 in e-book and print by Orenda Books.
Will Carver is the international bestselling author of the January David series and the critically acclaimed, mind-blowingly original Detective Pace series that includes Good Samaritans (2018), Nothing Important Happened Today (2019) and Hinton Hollow Death Trip (2020), all of which were ebook bestsellers and selected as books of the year in the mainstream international press. Nothing Important Happened Today was longlisted for both the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2020 and the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Hinton Hollow Death Trip was longlisted for Guardian‘s Not the Booker Prize. Carver has recently written The Beresford (2021) and Psychopaths Anonymous (2021).
You can follow Will on Twitter here.
Find out more about the publisher, Orenda Books here, and check them out on Twitter.
My previous Will Carver reviews:
(I still can’t publish my review on Nothing Important Happened Today because my review will never do it justice and is my favourite book of all time).
*Just kidding, it’s gone on another bookcase.
