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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.
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Hand Me Down World Synopsis
Sometimes a person passes through your world and you don't forget them. She is like that. She is crossing continents, searching for her missing child. Everyone she comes into contact with has a tale to tell: the truck driver who mistook her for a prostitute, the hunters who almost shot her, the Frenchman who loved her, the blind man and the lodger. This is her story.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781848544802 |
| Publication date: |
9th May 2011 |
| Author: |
Lloyd Jones |
| Publisher: |
John Murray Publishers Ltd an imprint of John Murray General Publishing Division |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
313 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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Lloyd Jones Press Reviews
'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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