Darkness in the City of Light is Heidi Edmundson’s debut novel. Read more about it here.
She has previously written several short stories. One of these ‘The Road to Belonging’ was chosen to be included in ‘Global Emergency Care Stories’ an anthology of short stories published by the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine to reflect the incredible work that emergency care providers perform on a daily basis.
She has just finished 'Belly Full’, a work of narrative non- fiction, which includes a reflection on her love of Emergency Medicine despite the challenges of working in it post COVID combined with all the issues that the NHS is currently facing.
She is currently writing a sequel to Darkness in the City of Light.
MY BOOKS
Darkness in the City of Light
Heidi Edmundson's debut novel
Heartbroken and disillusioned Vulpe Tempest is left looking after her uncle’s private detective agency over the summer. Despite being told not to she takes on the case of a missing girl.
Meanwhile there is someone on the loose killing mermaids.
Part detective story, part ghost story, part love story this is a classic whodunit with a twist. A murder mystery set in magical city where the real and the fantastical bleed effortlessly into each other.
In order to solve the puzzle Vulpe must learn something about the history of the City in the Sea but she must also learn something about herself.
In Stores Now
Belly Full
Heidi Edmundson's New Non Fiction book
Dr Heidi Edmundson is an Emergency Medicine consultant at a London hospital. Belly Full is a forthright and unflinching account of the ill-health of the NHS in general and Emergency Medicine services in particular - and a bold record of her own health crisis.
It offers a candid view of what it is really like to work on the front line of the nation's health emergency, and the devastating implications for the well-being of our doctors and nurses.
The book is also alive to the rewards of living, and to the commitment to a specialism that prizes the incandescent work of decision-making, risk and recovery - values that are at the heart of emergency medicine and, maybe, also at the heart of life.