At the time I was writing a scene in which a poker is pulled (ominously) from the depths of a fire and glows with heat. I came across it last year, courtesy of my husband, who mentioned it as an interesting word. It means a white heat, or to glow with heat. Also figuratively of character, from Greek adamas, ‘unbreakable, inflexible’.Ĭandent – a rare word now (so rare it is not in my enormous dictionary, and I had to check in the online OED to make sure it was real). There are some people in my life – and one or two in my fiction – who seem unbreakable in this way.Ĭirca 1200, from Latin adamantinus, ‘hard as steel, inflexible’, from Greek adamantinos. I think the word conjures a dark, glittering, beautiful strength that can be applied to the human spirit as well as to a stone or metal. Her second novel, The Widow’s Confession was published in January 2015, and her third, The Vanishing, will be published in January 2017. Tobin lives in London with her husband.Īdamantine – meaning unbreakable, linked with the idea of immense, diamond-like hardness. Inspired by her research into a real eighteenth-century silversmith, Tobin began to write The Silversmith’s Wife, which was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize and published by Simon & Schuster in January 2014. Having graduated from the Open University, she moved to London to study History of Art, then worked for a Bond Street antique dealer for six years, specialising in silver and jewellery. ‘ Brilliantly Brontë-esque.Sophia Tobin was raised on the Isle of Thanet in Kent. ‘ Vivid, absorbing and wonderfully gothic, with shades of Sarah Waters and Emily and Charlotte Brontë’ Kate Riordan Stunning, twisting historical fiction for all fans of Jessie Burton and Tracy Chevalier. But by then she is already in the middle of a web of darkness and intrigue, where murder seems the only possible means of escape.Īlready a Sunday Times bestselling author with her first novel, The Vanishing confirms Sophia Tobin as a major talent. When runaway Annaleigh first meets the Twentymans, their offer of employment and lodgings seems a blessing. Here lives Marcus Twentyman, a hard-drinking but sensitive man, and his sister, the brisk widow, Hester. On top of the Yorkshire Moors, in an isolated spot carved out of a barren landscape, lies White Windows, a house of shadows and secrets. One to curl up by the fire with on a windy night’ Stylist 'Think Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre, but ten times darker, and you have The Vanishing … as dark and eerie and gothic as the Yorkshire Moors it is set on.
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