The Fever Box

LP Fergusson
Works of: Fiction

A psychological thriller with the disturbing setting of Shutter Island, the threatening tension of Sleeping with the Enemy and the queasy twist of Sharp Objects.

When Clara Cooper’s abusive husband is lost in action during the Fall of France in 1940, she grabs the opportunity to disappear, secretly returning to nursing. Although Britain is on the brink of invasion, she finds a comforting anonymity working in the vast military hospital on the south coast. But she soon becomes aware that more than pain and suffering lurk in the misty corridors.

Who is the mysterious girl Clara nurses through a barbaric night of treatment in the “fever box”? And who is haunting the opium dreams of badly-burned pilot Dougie Douglas? As frightening and malevolent events accelerate, Clara becomes convinced that her husband has returned, forcing her to face a danger far greater than anything the nightly bombing raids can bring.