- Title:
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Hand Me Down World
- Written by:
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Lloyd Jones
- Read by:
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Humphrey Bower
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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9
- Duration:
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10 hours 14 minutes
- Published:
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January 01 2011
- Available Date:
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January 28 2011
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781742675794
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; General Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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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