The Medusa Effect

Nov 11, 2025 1:10 AM

Author:Justin Richards

The Medusa Effect

Medusa - an experimental spaceship developed by the Advanced Research Department of St Oscar's University. Missing since it was launched, presumed lost in the wars, it was a project so secret that it has never been declassified.

Now, twenty years on, Medusa is coming home.

After one of the investigation team dies suspiciously, Professor Bernice Summerfield is assigned to help discover what went wrong. But to do so she must solve a riddle. What is the strange link between the original crew and the team now on board the drifting ship? And why do their ghosts still haunt Medusa?

Reviews

Gibbons was an acute and witty observer, and her dissection of the British class system is spot-on

—— Mail on Sunday

Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the 20th century

—— Lynn Truss

Hill's writing here is superb, conveying emotion and pain in the sparest of prose...a comforting keenly moving tale of endurance and the eternal springs of friendship and love

—— Philip Womack , Literary Review

It has a power beyond its pages; a haunting resonance between each stark sentence that stayed with me long after I'd turned the final page.The delicate balance between kindness and bitterness, hope and despair, a dying man and a dying town, are almost unbearably poignant. This is a short book that will live long in the memory

—— Rebecca Armstrong , Independent on Sunday

Concisely captures primal emotions and offers astonishing transformations... Movingly perceptive

—— David Grylls , Sunday Times

I read this short novel in one sitting; it is an enthralling story, touching and ultimately positive

—— Bookshelf

Susan Hill is the mistress of subtle atmosphere

—— Country Life

Moving study of faith and humanity

—— Sara Keating , Sunday Business Post, Ireland

Beautiful novel

—— Sainsbury's Magazine

A bittersweet family drama set in an English industrial town

—— Katie Owen , Sunday Telegraph

Richly satisfying

—— Independent

The legendary Ms Trollope triumphs yet again, with her latest slick of classy chick-lit

—— HEAT

This thoroughly engaging, intelligent, literate novel

—— WASHINGTON POST

The brilliantly observed portrayal of family life is wonderfully compelling - and a story many will be able to identify with. ****

—— CLOSER

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