One Yellow Eye
17 July 2025Synopsis
‘Compulsively readable’
OLIVIE BLAKE, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six and Masters of Death
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 life is turned upside down when her husband, Tim, is one of the last to be bitten in a zombie pandemic. A scientist by day, she spends her evenings in group therapy with others who have also lost a loved one to the virus. The country is in a period of respite, seemingly having rounded up everyone affected, and Project Dawn is working hard to find a vaccine.
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.
Kesta juggles intensive work days under the microscope alongside Tim’s care, slipping him stolen drugs to keep him docile, knowing she is hiding the only zombie left – the very thing that could put everyone in danger again.
But a cure seems increasingly out of reach. Plus Kesta is running out of drugs - and time. Can she save her husband before he is discovered? Or worse . . . will they trigger another outbreak?
‘Darkly comedic, gruesome and compassionate’ – Ashley Tate, bestselling author of Twenty Seven Minutes
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17 July 2025
9781035048311Reviews
Compulsively readable. A propulsive, page-turning descent into all that is lovely and grotesque about grief, obsession and loveOlivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six and Masters of Death
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 heartMason Coile, author of William
Witty, propulsive and heartbreaking. Radford’s dark, zombie love-story is intelligent and refreshingRebecca Netley, author of The Whistling
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 understatementAshley Tate, bestselling author of Twenty Seven Minutes
