Incendiary (novel)
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 First edition (UK) | |
| Author | Chris Cleave |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Literary fiction |
| Publisher | Chatto & Windus (UK) Knopf (US) |
Publication date | 7 July 2005 in UK and 2 August 2005 in USA |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 352 |
| ISBN | 978-0-307-26282-0 |
Incendiary is a novel by British writer Chris Cleave. When it was first published in the summer of 2005, it garnered international headlines for the eerie similarity of its plot to the 7 July 2005 London bombings in England carried out on the same day it was published. It won the 2005 Book-of-the-Month Club First Fiction Award. A 2008 film with the same name was based on it.
The novel is written as an epistolary first-person novel, in which, the main character, a young mother, writes a letter to Osama bin Laden after a London incendiary bombing.
Plot summary
A young mother's life is blown apart when her husband and four-year-old son are killed during a bombing at a football match. Following this, the young mother falls into a depression. While the young mother tries to battle her depression, she also must fight the guilt of committing adultery the same day of her son's and husband's death.
