Shadow Child by Libby Purves - ISBN: 9780340837436
Paperback
A grieving mother uncovers shocking secrets in her son’s hidden life.

Shadow Child

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  • Paperback

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    1 May 2010

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Summary

Family love is one of the most powerful elemental forces on earth, and at that moment, our last moment as a unit of three, we rode a great curling triumphant wave of it, all together. Death may have thought that he won, but I think otherwise.

There is no right way to deal with the loss of a beloved son. Marion and Tom are doing their dignified best, but their own relationship is taking a battering.

So when a fierce, strange woman turns up and demands to see the dead boy, Mario…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780340837436
ISBN-10:0340837438
Author:Libby Purves
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:1 May 2010
Weight:220g
Dimensions:201mm x 169mm x 16mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Through this lively, often funny, topical story of discovery and reconciliation, ultimately of love, Libby Purves touchingly and truthfully explores and extends the conventional idea of family.

Strongly recommended - Daily Mail

The arresting new novel by one of our best-loved writers - The Times

Through this lively, often funny, topical story of discovery and reconciliation, ultimately of love, Libby Purves touchingly and truthfully explores and extends the conventional idea of family. - Saga

Praise for LOVE SONGS AND LIES:

‘Touching insight … Purves seems to feel keenly the paradox that, despite love being humanity’s redeeming featue, it inspires acts that cause untold and unforeseen pain’ - Times

A bouncy and enlightening read - Good Housekeeping

Purves is a fine writer and the slow pace at the start of the novel proves well pitched to heighten the rising tension of the story - She

About The Author

Libby Purves

Libby Purves is a writer and broadcaster who has presented the talk programme Midweek on Radio 4 since 1984 and formerly presented Today. She is a main columnist on the Times and in 1999 was named the Granada What the Papers Say Columnist of the Year, and awarded an O.B.E for services to journalism. She lives in Suffolk with her husband, the broadcaster and writer Paul Heiney.

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