
Hearts And Minds
‘Ambitious, compelling and utterly gripping' Maggie O'Farrell
$33.54
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2010
Summary
Rich or poor, five people, seemingly very different, find their lives in the capital connected in undreamed-of ways. There is Job, the illegal mini-cab driver whose wife in Zimbabwe no longer answers his letters; Ian, the idealistic supply teacher in exile from South Africa; Katie from New York, jilted and miserable as a dogsbody at a political magazine, and fifteen-year-old Anna, trafficked into sexual slavery. Polly Noble, an overworked human rights lawyer, knows better than most how easy i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349115870 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349115877 |
| Author: | Amanda Craig |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 292g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Abacus |
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** ‘This is a novel written with passion and moral outrage. It is a vivid portrait of a city that is at once familiar and disconcertingly strange
A novel written with passion and moral outrage. It is a vivid portrait of a city that is at once familiar and disconcertingly strange * The Times *A novel written with passion and moral outrage. It is a vivid portrait of a city that is at once familiar and disconcertingly strange * The Times *Skilfully mixes skilled reportage (once a journalist, always a journalist) with a filmic sensibility…You can’t put this novel down, even if babies are yelling and the pots are boiling over * Independent *Skilfully mixes skilled reportage (once a journalist, always a journalist) with a filmic sensibility…You can’t put this novel down, even if babies are yelling and the pots are boiling over * Independent *Craig’s excellence lies in her ability to underpin everything with hope and the promise of redemption…She has written a sympathetic, thought-provoking and often deeply moving account of the strange, shifting beast that is our capital * Telegraph *Craig’s excellence lies in her ability to underpin everything with hope and the promise of redemption…She has written a sympathetic, thought-provoking and often deeply moving account of the strange, shifting beast that is our capital * Telegraph *She is a humane writer as well a waspish one and it is the plight of London’s migrant workers and sink-school pupils with which she is primarily concerned here, and her passion and care are affecting * Observer *She is a humane writer as well a waspish one and it is the plight of London’s migrant workers and sink-school pupils with which she is primarily concerned here, and her passion and care are affecting * Observer *Acutely observed, purposeful, dynamic…Perfectly conjures the capital’s beautiful, broken carousel * Times Literary Supplement *Acutely observed, purposeful, dynamic…Perfectly conjures the capital’s beautiful, broken carousel * Times Literary Supplement *A large kindness overarches the novel * Guardian *A large kindness overarches the novel * Guardian *Very special…ambitious, compelling and utterly gripping * Maggie O’Farrell *Very special…ambitious, compelling and utterly gripping * Maggie O’Farrell *** ‘This is a novel written with passion and moral outrage. It is a vivid portrait of a city that is at once familiar and disconcertingly strange * THE TIMES Joan Smith *** ‘Rich, Dickensian * SUNDAY TIMES Penny Perrick *** ‘She is a humane writer as well a waspish one and it is the plight of London’s migrant workers and sink-school pupils with which she is primarily concerned here, and her passion and care are affecting * OBSERVER Lisa O’Kelly *** ‘There is much in HEARTS AND MINDS to praise … The book displays the author’s relentless compassion. A large kindness overarches the novel * GUARDIAN Stevie Davies *
About The Author
Amanda Craig
Amanda Craig is a well-known journalist and broadcaster. She is the author of A VICIOUS CIRCLE, IN A DARK WOOD and LOVE IN IDLENESS.
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