Jane Jesmond

Six decades. Seven people. One unspeakable secret. 1957. A catastrophe occurs at the pharmaceutical lab in Coventry where sixteen-year-old Wilf is working for the summer. A catastrophe that needs to be covered up at all costs. 2017. Phiney is shocked by the death of her grandfather, Wilf, who has jumped from a railway bridge at a Coventry station. Journalist Mat...

Risk everything, trust no one. Jen Shaw is climbing in the mountains near Alajar, Spain. It's nothing to do with the fact that an old acquaintance suggested she meet him there. But when things don't go as planned and her brother calls to voice concerns over the whereabouts of their mother, Morwenna, Jen finds herself travelling to a refugee camp...

Still reeling from a life-threatening experience on the coast of Calais, daredevil climber Jen Shaw finds herself in Glasgow for a funeral, devastated with grief and in search of answers. As her dogged determination propels her closer to the criminal underworld than ever before, Jen and her family become the target of some dangerous and powerful people with links to...

On The Edge by Jane Jesmond tells the story of Jen Shaw, a woman who has climbed all her life—daring ascents of sheer rock faces, crumbling buildings, cranes—the riskier, the better. Both her work and personal life revolved around climbing, and the adrenaline high it gave her, until she went too far and hurt the people she cares about. Now,...