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Shadow Child

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Description for Shadow Child Paperback. A powerful novel from Radio 4 presenter and Times columnist Libby Purves, inspired by the loss of her own son Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 16. Weight in Grams: 226.

'Family love is one of the most powerful elemental forces on earth, and at that moment, our last moment as a unit of three, we rode a great curling triumphant wave of it, all together. Death may have thought that he won, but I think otherwise.'

There is no right way to deal with the loss of a beloved son. Marion and Tom are doing their dignified best, but their own relationship is taking a battering.

So when a fierce, strange woman turns up and demands to see the dead boy, Marion is almost glad of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340837436
SKU
V9780340837436
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10

About Libby Purves
Libby Purves is a writer and also a broadcaster who has presented the talk programme Midweek on Radio 4 since 1984 and formerly presented Today. She is a main columnist on the Times and in 1999 was named the Granada "What the Papers Say" Columnist of the Year, and awarded an O.B.E for services to journalism. She lives ... Read more

Reviews for Shadow Child
Strongly recommended
Daily Mail
The arresting new novel by one of our best-loved writers
The Times
Through this lively, often funny, topical story of discovery and reconciliation, ultimately of love, Libby Purves touchingly and truthfully explores and extends the conventional idea of family.
Saga
Praise for LOVE SONGS AND LIES: 'Touching insight . . ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Shadow Child


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