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Fall of man in Wilmslow / David Lagercrantz ; translated from the Swedish by George Goulding.

Fall of man in Wilmslow / David Lagercrantz ; translated from the Swedish by George Goulding.
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ISBN 9781848668911 (paperback)
Name Lagercrantz, David author.
Title Fall of man in Wilmslow / David Lagercrantz ; translated from the Swedish by George Goulding.
Published London : MacLehose Press / Quercus, 2015.
©2015.
Description 400 pages ; 23 cm.
Summary Leonard Corell, a detective sergeant in the sleepy town of Wilmslow, is disillusioned with his lot. Trapped between professional stagnation and personal repression, he can't even work up the courage to ask out Julie, the pretty assistant at the tailor's. Tasked with investigating the suicide of a local recluse, Alan Turing, Corell is torn between admiration for the dead man's genius and disgust for his sexuality. In the face of opposition from his superiors, Corell continues to investigate the open-and-shut case, stumbling across forbidden knowledge about the marvels of Bletchley Park, and the horrors of its hero's downfall. As this succession of remarkable discoveries drives Corell to examine his own prejudice, he is rocked by two startling developments. His much-loved Aunt Vicky is exposed as a lesbian, and his increasingly hostile bosses are demanding he investigate rumours of homosexual activity in Wilmslow. To make matters worse, it seems Corell's questions might be answered sooner than he imagined...
Language note Translated from the Swedish.
Subjects Turing, Alan Mathison, -- 1912-1954 -- Fiction
Suicide -- Fiction
Homosexuality -- Fiction
Swedish fiction -- Translations into English
Cold War -- Fiction
England -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genre Biographical fiction
Other Names Goulding, George translator.
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