Hidden within the confines of The Royal Institute of Prehistorical Studies, Sybil is happy enough with her work - and her love life. Then to her dismay, her old adversary, assertive and glamorous Helen Hansen, is appointed Head of Trustees. To add insult, Helen promptly seduces Sybil's boyfriend. Betrayed and broken-hearted, Sybil becomes obsessed with exposing Helen as a fraud, no matter the cost.
Offbeat and darkly funny, The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line is about things lost and found. It is also a story about love, grief and forgiveness: letting go and moving on.
âSo hooked on this subtle, wry, intimate novel that I listened to it from start to finish in the course of a... dayâ THE TIMES
âI LOVED IT! All the best bits of Barbara Pym, with a little Jane Austen - on speedâ SARAH SALWAY
âWry, sharp and tender. A delightâ MEAGHAN DELAHUNT
âResonant and romantic, sad but never sentimental and laced through with wicked shafts of humourâ LESLEY GLAISTER
âI just think it's glorious. Absolutely brilliant! So funny so sad, so uplifting and so gripping. What a cracker!â ALAN WARNER
âSybil is an audible presence, someone that must be taken on her own terms, in her own words. The almost zen handling of voice is a joy.â JANICE GALLOWAY
âI would follow Sybil down any domestic/Beckett rabbit holeâ REIF LARSEN
âIt is Deirdra Whelan's perfectly pitched projection of Sybil's concussed state of mind that makes this most unusual novel compulsive listeningâ THE TIMES