The third novel by Frome author and Guardian journalist Keith Stuart has been selected as one of six new works to be featured in the second series of Between the Covers, BBC Two’s popular book review programme, presented by Sara Cox.
The episode will air on BBC Two on Tuesday 15th June. The Frequency of Us is a time-spanning mystery love story set in Bath, partially in the modern day, but also during the Second World War, when the city was bombed.
Stuart spent a year thoroughly researching the impact of bombings on Bath, interviewing local historians and exploring the city for locations. The novel has been described by best-selling author Beth O’Leary as, “A fascinating, beautiful, heartwarming novel. It kept me gripped from the very first chapter.”
The book’s synopsis says, “The Frequency of Us follows young, naive wireless engineer Will who meets and falls in love with Austrian refugee Elsa Klein at the start of the war: two years later the couple’s home is bombed, and Will awakes from the wreckage to find himself alone. No one has heard of Elsa Klein. They say he was never married.
“Seventy years later, troubled social worker Laura is sent to care for Will who tells her about the mysterious disappearance of his wife. Everyone thinks he’s suffering dementia, but when weird things start happening in the house, she begins to suspect otherwise.”
To celebrate last week’s launch of Stuart’s third novel, the first 50 people to order the book from Frome’s bookshop, Hunting Raven, will get a limited edition booklet about the novel, written and signed by the author.
Stuart’s first novel, A Boy Made of Blocks, was a Richard and Judy book club pick, selling over 200,000 copies. It has been translated into 24 languages.
The programme will be aired on Tuesday 15th June and will also be available on BBC iPlayer: www.bbc.co. uk/programmes/m000n7sl
