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One Yellow Eye
- Author
- Leigh Radford
- Narrator
- Sofia Engstrand
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 17 July 2025
- Run Time
- 13 hours 12 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Full of heartbreak, revulsion and black humour, a scientist desperately searches for a cure to a zombie virus while also hiding a monumental secret – her undead husband.
Kesta’s husband, Tim, was the last person to be bitten in a zombie pandemic. The country is now in a period of respite, the government seemingly having rounded up and disposed of all the infected.
But Kesta has a secret . . .
Tim may have been bitten, but he’s not quite dead yet. In fact, he’s tied to a bed in her spare room. And she’s made him a promise: find a cure, bring him back.
A scientist by day, Kesta juggles intensive work under the microscope alongside Tim’s care, slipping him stolen drugs to keep him docile while knowing she is hiding the only zombie left. But Kesta is running out of drugs – and time. Can she save her husband before he is discovered? Or worse . . . will they trigger another outbreak?
‘An acidic, funny, queasy debut’ – Emma Van Straaten, bestselling author of This Immaculate Body
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WHY LISTENERS LOVE LEIGH RADFORD'S ONE YELLOW EYE:
'I absolutely devoured this (pardon the pun)'
'Man oh man. This is one of those hypnotizing novels that just instantly compels you to keep reading'
'Grimy, atmospheric and so beautifully bleak, it absolutely burrowed under my skin'
Critics Review
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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 and Masters of Death
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A post-apocalyptic heartbreaker, dosed with high tension and threaded with the profound hope that love brings, One Yellow Eye is a new classic
Christina Henry, author of Alice and The House That Horror Built
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An equally charming and grim zombie 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, bestselling author of So Thirsty and Black Sheep
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Witty, propulsive and heartbreaking. Radford’s dark, zombie love-story is intelligent and refreshing
Rebecca Netley, author of The Whistling
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You wouldn't expect a zombie novel to have so much to say about love. Radford's suspenseful One Yellow Eye is driven by various fears – the fear of a virus that could return to rip the world apart, the fear of a terrible wrongdoing being discovered – but in the end the zombies take a backseat to the greatest horror of all: losing the one closest to our heart
Mason Coile, author of William
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Unflinching, subversive, and deeply human, Radford delivers a zombie love story for the ages.
Maggie Su, author of Blob
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Complex and utterly brilliant, One Yellow Eye had me in a chokehold from the first word to the last as I was swept up into Kesta and Tim’s harrowing journey, navigating the fine line between love and selfishness; grief and obsession. Leigh Radford has created a genre all her own (fitting for a tale about zombies) that was darkly comedic, gruesome and compassionate – to say I absolutely loved this beautifully macabre story is an understatement
Ashley Tate, bestselling author of Twenty Seven Minutes
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Stunningly accomplished . . . This gripping and darkly comedic tragedy lays bare what 'til death do us part' really means.
Charlotte Cross, author of The Brides
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An acidic, funny, queasy debut . . . What seems initially to be tense pandemic fiction reveals a tender, harrowing love story
Emma van Straaten, author of This Immaculate Body
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Radford's undead love story can be snort-inducingly funny . . . One for those with strong stomachs and big hearts
The Times
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A gripping, sometimes darkly funny depiction of the grotesque lengths to which love might drive someone in refusing to accept an inevitable end
Guardian
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Radford shapes the subgenre into something new and fresh . . . The reanimated corpses are just icing on the rotting cake
New York Times
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Gripping, grisly and wonderfully written
Daily Mail
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Readers will be moved and thrilled in equal measure by this unique supernatural extravaganza
Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
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Funny, heartbreaking and beautifully written
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Details
- Author
- Leigh Radford
- Narrator
- Sofia Engstrand
- Duration
- 13 hours 12 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 July 2025
- ISBN
- 9781035048311
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Contemporary horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Romantic suspense, Narrative theme: health and illness, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss, Mythical creatures: Zombies and the undead
Synopsis
‘Snort-inducingly funny . . . One for those with strong stomachs and big hearts’ – The TimesFull of heartbreak, revulsion and black humour, a scientist desperately searches for a cure to a zombie virus while also hiding a monumental secret – her undead husband. Kesta’s husband, Tim, was the last person to be bitten in a zombie pandemic. The country is now in a period of respite, the government seemingly having rounded up and disposed of all the infected.But Kesta has a secret . . .Tim may have been bitten, but he’s not quite dead yet. In fact, he’s tied to a bed in her spare room. And she’s made him a promise: find a cure, bring him back.A scientist by day, Kesta juggles intensive work under the microscope alongside Tim’s care, slipping him stolen drugs to keep him docile while knowing she is hiding the only zombie left. But Kesta is running out of drugs – and time. Can she save her husband before he is discovered? Or worse . . . will they trigger another outbreak?‘An acidic, funny, queasy debut’ – Emma Van Straaten, bestselling author of This Immaculate Body***WHY LISTENERS LOVE LEIGH RADFORD'S ONE YELLOW EYE:'I absolutely devoured this (pardon the pun)''Man oh man. This is one of those hypnotizing novels that just instantly compels you to keep reading''Grimy, atmospheric and so beautifully bleak, it absolutely burrowed under my skin'
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