Summary
Aidan Jones was my brother. But I couldn’t really remember his face. I couldn’t remember talking to him or playing with him. He was just a gap, an absence, a missing person.
Before she was adopted by a loving family and raised in a leafy Home Counties town, Cass Montgomery was Cass Jones. Her memories of her birth family disappeared with her name. But when her adopted family starts to break down, a way out comes in the form of a message from her lost brother, Aidan. H…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349001388 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349001383 |
| Author: | Keren David |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | ATOM |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 10 June 2014 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
A compassionate examination of race, class and societal expectation
A wonderfully written book about family relationships and how we can overcome our pasts and take control of our present and future. A story full of hope and the good things that can happen when we have hope. * mumsnet.com *
A compassionate examination of race, class and societal expectation * Financial Times *
This is a terrific novel, gripping and complex – Marilyn Brocklehurst * Bookseller *
The heart-rending story of two siblings separated in early childhood. Contemporary, compulsive and a brilliant jacket, too * Bookseller *
Life-affirming, witty and uplifting… David gets better with every book * Daily Mail *
David… adeptly captures the immense pressures faced both by young people from whom everything is expected and those consigned to the rubbish heap when their lives have barely begun * Metro *
Heart-rending * Bliss *
Salvage is really going to make people sit up and notice – Books for Keeps * Damian Kelleher *
Skilfully written, Salvage marks David as an author of empathy and truthfulness. – Amanda Craig * The New Statesman *
Keren David’s writing … has heart without being sentimental, is skilfully plotted, and its emotional and moral landscapes are nuanced. … [Salvage is a] gripping ride. – Linda Buckley-Archer * The Guardian *
David has written a sympathetic novel which describes with insight family dysfunction and the effects of being taken away from one’s family. – Rosamund Charlish * The School Librarian *
About The Author
Keren David
Keren David got her first job in journalism, at eighteen, as a messenger girl. The following year she turned down a place at university to be apprenticed as a reporter. She’s worked for many of the national newspapers in Scotland and London and later became a commissioning editor on the Independent’s op-ed page.
After eight years in Amsterdam, Keren returned to London in 2007 and took a course of evening classes in Writing for Children at City University. Her first book, the award-winning When I Was Joe started out as a plot-planning exercise on the course. Lia’s Guide to Winning the Lottery, a stand-alone novel, is currently being developed into a musical. Salvage is Keren’s fifth book.
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