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From the Author of Mr Pip, shortlisted for the Man Booker, is an original and extraordinary novel that makes readers think and question. A moving and inspiring tale of a mother crossing continents searching for her child, meeting people and changing their lives as well as her own.
Reviewed by Sarah BroadhurstSarah Broadhurst spent her early working life in the book trade in both retail and wholesale until the arrival of children forced her to look for freelance work she could do from…
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From the author of the beloved, bestselling Mister Pip: a novel about a mother's search for her stolen child. A novel you can't stop thinking about.A woman washes up on a beach in Sicily. She has come from Tunisia to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old and stolen away to Berlin.
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From the author of the beloved, bestselling Mister Pip: a novel about a mother's search for her stolen child. A novel you can't stop thinking about.A woman washes up on a beach in Sicily. She has come from Tunisia to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old and stolen away to Berlin.
With nothing but her maid's uniform and a homemade knife stashed in a plastic bag, she relies on strangers some generous, some malevolent to guide her passage north. These strangers tell of their encounters with her, building her story in fragments of memory, prejudice and sentiment into a moving work of sacrifice and love. Hand Me Down World tells an epic story about the courage of a mother, the versions of truth to which we accommodate our lives, and love's ultimate power to redeem us.
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'Compelling ... vivid ... intense ... one of the most significant novelists writing today' -- Sunday Times
'Humane and moving, it's a worthy successor to Jones's last novel, the Booker-shortlisted Mister Pip' -- Daily Mail
'Artfully constructed and delicately nuanced ... Hand Me Down World has an eerie compulsion' -- D J Taylor, Financial Times
'Everyone will want to read Hand Me Down World and few will be able to stop thinking about it after they do' -- Irish Independent
'The novel's readability belies its great depth ... Jones's novel is haunting to the very final line' -- Sunday Telegraph
'This is, to make a bold claim, an extraordinary novel ... 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' -- Joanna Briscoe, Guardian
About Lloyd Jones
Lloyd Jones lives in Wellington, New Zealand. He travelled to Papua New Guinea at the outset of the blockade and visited the island twice ten years later; once, to visit the New Zealand Peacekeeping mission, the second time to stay with Sam Kauona, the military leader of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army.
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