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A life marked by love, betrayal, and the secrets of Tiger Bay.
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The Hiding Place

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    304 pages

  • Release Date

    2 February 2027

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Summary

The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi is a deeply moving and intensely lyrical novel about love and betrayal. Shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize, it portrays the life of a child condemned forever to bear the mark of a disintegrating family.

Dolores is the youngest of six daughters. Growing up in the 1960s in Cardiff’s poverty stricken Tiger Bay, her life is cursed from the start when, on the day of her birth, her father gambles and loses everything on a bet that Delores will be a bo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781035091515
ISBN-10:1035091518
Author:Trezza Azzopardi
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Picador
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:2 February 2027
Weight:214g
Dimensions:19mm x 134mm x 203mm
Series:Picador Collection
Audience Age:18
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The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi - ISBN: 9781035091515
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What They're Saying

Critics Review

Azzopardi is an assured magician when it comes to tricks to keep the readers turning the pages … An astonishingly accomplished book * The Independent *
An extraordinarily instinctive writer with a delicate feel for language … A scalding, thrilling book – Maggie O’Farrell * The Observer *
An accomplished and courageous debut … In its sheer strangeness and poetic charge, the novel sometimes recalls other literary one-offs such as Wuthering Heights * Times Literary Supplement *
Remarkably perceptive … Like the gritty world they inhabit, Azzopardi’s characters command a ragged, sharp-edged dignity in this haunting debut * Kirkus Reviews *
The Hiding Place manages to be heart-breaking without being sentimental. Fans of Kate Atkinson and Andrea Ashworth will love this. Read it and weep * The Mirror *
A gripping tale, horrifying and often funny … The relationship between the girls, who must fight to survive, is brilliantly evoked * Marie Claire *
Accomplished … [It] proceeds at a cracking pace, full of neat but unobtrusive gestures at the horrors beneath … Sharply written, full of crisp little vignettes and cameos * The Guardian *

About The Author

Trezza Azzopardi

Trezza Azzopardi was born in Cardiff and lives in Norwich. She is the author of The Song House, Remember Me, and The Hiding Place, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000.

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