They want him to travel to Belfast, where he was stationed during the Troubles, so that they can interview him about his involvement in a deadly 1982 incident. Then he receives a letter from something called the Commission. Rose, a 51-year-old with a lifelong drinking problem, has managed to put out of mind a life-altering event from his time in the British military 30 years earlier and has since lived a quiet life in Bristol, where he works at a shop called Plant World and spends time at a Quaker meeting house. It's hard to outrun one's past, as Stephen Rose discovers in The Slowworm's Song, the traumatic yet beautiful ninth novel by Andrew Miller ( The Crossing). Kristen Allen-Vogel, information services librarian at Dayton Metro Library Should Feldman want to revisit this world in subsequent novels, readers will be happy to return. She must confront her past, escape with her life and decide what else is worth protecting-and at what cost. Readers learn the painful history that led her to cut ties with the shadowy organization she has abandoned, a club that could have been her ticket to success. After she returns to the club, Nina is propelled from one revelation to the next. In an action-packed and relatively brief narrative, Saturnalia expertly and vividly portrays a world both recognizable and alien.
Retrieving an item from the Saturn Club, she discovers that these secret societies have dabbled in forces beyond anything she had imagined, and one of them now hunts her.
Nina cut her ties with the Saturn Club, consisting of Philadelphia's elite, three years ago and has scraped by since then, making a living with her tarot deck: "It's not the life I planned for, telling fortunes during the end of days," the novel opens, "but clients are plentiful." Just before the Saturnalia festival, which has become a wild, annual masquerade, Nina hears from a friend with influence in the club, who asks her to run an errand. Mutual-aid organizations have morphed into the centers of social power. The world teeters on the brink of ecological collapse.
A woman risks courting the anger of a powerful organization and discovers a shocking secret in Saturnalia, the fast-paced, near-future thriller from Stephanie Feldman ( The Angel of Losses).
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