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Seldom Seen

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Format: Hardback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
Publisher: Cornerstone
Imprint: Hutchinson
Publication Date: 15/08/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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After some years travelling and then working with Amnesty International, Oxfam and Oxford University Press, Sarah graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 2002 with a distinction. One of her short stories was shortlisted for the Mslexia national short story competition in 2009. Sarah lives in Norwich with her husband and two young daughters. This is her debut novel.

Desiree White was walking through the fields of winter wheat and oilseed rape when she saw it. She picked the newspaper bundle out of the ditch and took it to the phone box. Across the baby's tiny body she could see a faint tattoo of Lady Di's face where some of the newsprint had rubbed off. It was like finding a featherless bird fallen out of its nest. No-one had ever bothered much about Desiree but now everyone is interested in her, in what she saw, in who the parents might be and why they'd dump a baby. Even Bernie Capon, her older brother's best friend, wants to know what she thinks. As years go by and everyone else moves on with their lives, Desiree feels stuck, unable to forget what she saw that day. Somehow she owes it to the baby to solve the mystery. But when she starts to make connections which bring the truth dangerously close to home, it seems that some secrets are best left alone.

Title: Seldom Seen
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Contributors: By (author) Sarah Ridgard

ISBN 13: 9780091944124
ISBN 10: 0091944120

Publisher: Cornerstone
Imprint: Hutchinson
Publication Date: 15/08/2012
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
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BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification: 823.92 (DC23)

Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
Height: 222mm
Width: 143mm
Thickness: 26mm
Weight: 432g