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Chris Cleave's debut novel INCENDIARY won the Somerset Maugham Award, among others. His second, the Costa-shortlisted THE OTHER HAND, was a global bestseller and sat in the New York Times Top Ten for over a year (under the US title, Little Bee). Both books were shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prizes. He lives in Kingston-upon-Thames with his wife and three children, and welcomes readers at facebook.com/ChrisCleaveBooks, www.chriscleave.com and twitter.com/chriscleave.
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'Ambitious and fearless' Guardian
The lives of a woman and a girl collide one fateful day, and one of them has to make a terrible choice. Two years later they meet again - the story starts there...
Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and Costa Novel of the Year, Chris Cleave's second novel has become a reading group classic. First published in 2008, it spent over one year on the New York Times bestseller list and has since sold millions of copies worldwide. This paperback edition, published to celebrate Sceptre's 30th anniversary, features an exclusive new afterword by the author.
'A powerful piece of art... shocking, exciting and deeply affecting' Independent