Shadow Child

By: Libby Purves

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Paperback | 18 March 2010 | Edition Number 1

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272 Pages

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1.8 x 13 x 19.7

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'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 the distraction. Against Tom s wishes, she determines to find out more about her son's life away from home.

The quest takes her out of her comfortable, conventional world to a shabby office in East London, and a series of shocks. Tom, furious, finds his own solution, and amid scandal, sorrow and exaltation the quiet Middle-Englanders discover that there is more than one kind of family.

Industry Reviews

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 . . . Purves seems to feel keenly the paradox that, despite love being humanity's redeeming featue, it inspires acts that cause untold and unforeseen pain' - Times

A bouncy and enlightening read - Good Housekeeping

Purves is a fine writer and the slow pace at the start of the novel proves well pitched to heighten the rising tension of the story - She

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