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Lloyd Jones

Award-winning novelist Lloyd Jones was born in 1955 in Lower Hutt in New Zealand and graduated from Victoria University. He has worked as a journalist and covered Papua New Guinea's blockade of Bougainville during the 1990s, the setting for his bestselling Mister Pip. Jones has received awards including the Katherine Mansfield Memorial fellowship in 1988, the Deutz Medal for Fiction, the Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize (2003) and the Montana New Zealand Book Award (2001) for The Book of Fame. In 2007 Jones won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Mister Pip, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

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Title:

Hand Me Down World

Written by:

Lloyd Jones 

Read by:

Humphrey Bower 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

9 

Duration:

10 hours 14 minutes 

Published:

January 01 2011 

Available Date:

January 28 2011 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781742675794 

Genres:

Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; General Fiction; Literary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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AUD$ 39.95

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International bestselling author
Award winning author

A multi-layered story of the search for a lost child from the internationally bestselling author of Mister Pip.

A woman washes ashore in Sicily. She has come from north Africa to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old by his father and stolen away to Berlin. With nothing but her maid’s uniform and a knife stashed in a plastic bag, she relies on strangers – some generous, some exploiting – to guide her passage north. These strangers tell of their encounters with a quiet, mysterious woman in a blue coat – each account a different view of the truth, a different truth. And slowly these fragments of a life piece together to create a spellbinding story of the courage of a mother and the versions of truth we create to accommodate our lives.

‘… a compelling narrative and an absorbing (and sometimes uncomfortable) disquisition on relative morality and justice.’
Financial Times

‘Jones is a daring writer who can be relied on to ignore expectation and is becoming one of the most interesting, honest and thought-provoking novelists working today.’
Guardian (UK)

‘Lloyd Jones has plotted a fine and moving story with enormous compassion, emotional depth and tender insight into humanity.’
Sunday Telegraph