Sarah Broadhurst's view...
Successfully blending one man’s fictional story with real life events and related by a flawed and anxious young scientist, this is a complex and gripping tale of weather and war as the right conditions for D-Day is sought. It’s not as gripping as The Last King of Scotland but it’s certainly as enjoyable.
Comparison: Sebastian Faulks, Robert Edric, William Boyd.
If you like Giles Foden you might also like to read books by Tony Park, Joseph O'Connor and Paul Theroux.
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The Good Book Guide Review. The D-Day landings and the fate of 2.5 million men were dependent on the conditions in the English Channel on just one day, but could the weather be predicted accurately enough to ensure their safe execution? In a mission more eventful than he could have imagined, young meteorologist Henry Meadows is sent to the wilds of Scotland to extract information from scientist Wallace Ryman about his brilliant forecasting formula – the Ryman number. A gripping mixture of tension, excitement and wry humour.
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Synopsis
Turbulence by Giles Foden
The D-day landings: the fate of 2.5 million men, 3000 landing craft and the entire future of Europe depends on the right weather conditions on the English Channel on a single day. A team of Allied scientists is charged with agreeing on an accurate forecast five days in advance. But is it even possible to predict the weather so far ahead? And what is the relationship between predictability and turbulence, one of the last great mysteries of modern physics? Wallace Ryman has devised a system that comprehends all of this - but he is a reclusive pacifist who stubbornly refuses to divulge his secrets. Henry Meadows, a young maths prodigy from the Met Office, is sent to Scotland to discover Ryman's system and apply it to the Normandy landings. But turbulence proves more elusive than anyone could have imagined and events, like the weather, begin to spiral out of control.
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30th June 2007Author
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Faber and FaberFormat
Paperback368 pages
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)ISBN
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