All That is Solid Melts into Air

What happens when the sky explodes in your small corner of the World? What if the desperate rescue operation turns into a state cover up with your home, family and community at the heart of it? The tragedy of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in April 1986 is depicted through the fate of a small number of intertwined lives. This book is harrowing and often read with a sense of dread. However McKeon does not leave us without hope entirely and in the darkest of moments there’s a thread for the reader to hang on to.What happens when the sky explodes in your small corner of the World? What if the desperate rescue operation turns into a state cover up with your home, family and community at the heart of it? The tragedy of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in April 1986 is depicted through the fate of a small number of intertwined lives. This book is harrowing and often read with a sense of dread. However McKeon does not leave us without hope entirely and in the darkest of moments there’s a thread for the reader to hang on to.

Published in 2014, this novel fell a little under the radar. It is all a novel can be - an insight, an education and beautifully written – the description of the sky in the early morning of the disaster is haunting.