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Alys Always

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Format: Hardback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Audience: General/trade
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication Date: 27/03/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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Frances is a thirty-something sub-editor, an invisible production, drone on the books pages of the Questioner. Her routine and colourless existence is disrupted one winter evening when she happens upon the aftermath of a car crash and hears the last words of the driver, Alys Kyte. When Alys's family makes contact in an attempt to find closure, Frances is given a tantalising glimpse of a very different world: one of privilege and possibility. The relationships she builds with the Kytes will have an impact on her own life, both professionally and personally, as Frances dares to wonder whether she might now become a player in her own right...

'Hugely enjoyable debut about 30-something Frances Thorpe, a lowly sub-editor on the books pages of a Sunday paper who suddenly and unexpectedly comes into contact with the family of a Man Booker prize-winning author - and there sees an opportunity. Barbara Vine-esque stuff.' THE BOOKSELLER

Title: Alys Always
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Contributors: By (author) Harriet Lane

ISBN 13: 9780297865018
ISBN 10: 0297865013

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication Date: 27/03/2012
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
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BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Dewey Classification: 823.92 (DC23)
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction

Format: Hardback
Pages: 224
Height: 221mm
Width: 143mm
Thickness: 23mm
Weight: 355g