LEIGH RADFORD
"Compulsively readable. A propulsive, page-turning descent into all that is lovely and grotesque about grief, obsession, and love."
Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six
One Yellow Eye is a heartrending and darkly humorous novel about the desperate measures we take to keep the ones we love alive.
In the aftermath of a zombie epidemic, brilliant biomedical scientist Kesta Shelley is struggling to return to normal. Her friends and colleagues are becoming concerned about her inability to move on and her obsession with her work.
Unbeknownst to them, Kesta is conducting her own medical experiments in the spare bedroom of her flat, where her husband Tim lies chained to a radiator, the only zombie remaining.
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Kesta will risk everything, including another outbreak, to bring Tim back from the undead.
"One Yellow Eye is a quietly momentous novel written with a literary flair that belies its debut status. It is a story that seeks to capture the irrevocable change wrought by love and the horror of losing that love."
Katie Fraser, THE BOOKSELLER
Leigh Radford trained as a broadcast journalist. She produced and presented arts and entertainment content for commercial radio, Time Out, The Times and The Sun, along with documentaries for the BBC, including Rilke’s Women for Radio 4. A former book publicist, she is a 2023 graduate of Faber Academy. She is currently developing content for film and television through her production company Kenosha Kickers.
"A post-apocalyptic heartbreaker, dosed with high tension and threaded with the profound hope that love brings, One Yellow Eye is a new classic in the zombie pantheon."
CHRISTINA HENRY, best-selling author
​THE HOUSE THAT HORROR BUILT
"Complex and utterly brilliant, ONE YELLOW EYE, had me in a chokehold from the first word to the last."
Ashley Tate, best-selling author of Twenty-Seven Minutes
"WITTY, PROPULSIVE AND HEARTBREAKING. RADFORD'S DARK, ZOMBIE LOVE-STORY IS INTELLIGENT AND REFRESHING."
REBECCA NEtLEY, author of THE WHISTLING
"YOU WOULDN'T EXPECT A ZOMBIE NOVEL TO HAVE
SO MUCH TO say about love."
mason coile, author of william
"AN EQUALLY CHARMING AND GRIM NOVEL ABOUT UNDYING LOVE. EVERY PAGE SIMMERS WITH EXQUISITE DREAD. ORIGINAL AND SMART AND HEARTFELT, AN UNMISSABLE DEBUT THAT BLENDS AND TRANSCENDS GENRE."
RACHEL HARRISON, USA TODAY best-selling author of
SO THIRSTY AND BLACK SHEEP
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