The novel is set in contemporary America and is narrated by Cate, a teenage girl. Cate has been raised on-the-run by a homeless drifter called Les, who abducted her from a campsite thirteen years before. Over the years, out of a warped sense of responsibility, Les has occasionally telephoned Cate's mother, to update her on her child's progress. But as the novel opens he rings to tell the confused and grieving woman that he is finally bringing her daughter home. Cate has done something so terrible that Les has belatedly ...
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The novel is set in contemporary America and is narrated by Cate, a teenage girl. Cate has been raised on-the-run by a homeless drifter called Les, who abducted her from a campsite thirteen years before. Over the years, out of a warped sense of responsibility, Les has occasionally telephoned Cate's mother, to update her on her child's progress. But as the novel opens he rings to tell the confused and grieving woman that he is finally bringing her daughter home. Cate has done something so terrible that Les has belatedly understood the moral consequences of his actions years before. But how will Cate cope with learning to love a mother she can't remember, and with learning to despise the man she has come to consider as her father? And how will her English mother square the memories of her three-year-old daughter with the hard-bitten, cynical, white-trash teenager who turns up on her doorstep? And what will happen to them both when the awful secret Cate is hiding is brought out into the open?
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Fine in Fine jacket. Fine condition. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2004. Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, very small mark and nick on the front cover) with Dj(two small creases and nicks on the edges of the Dj cover), both in fine condition. The book is new with light shelf wear on the outer edges of the pages. Price un-clipped.218pp.
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New. Hardcover New Ships From Canada New in new dust jacket Sewn binding Cloth over boards 224 p Audience: General/trade Product Description: Imagine Mark Haddon meets Alice Sebold and you have Patricia Tyrrell s The Reckoning In a phone booth beside a dusty Arizona highway, fifteen-year-old Cate listens in on yet another conversation between Les (the man who has raised her since she was a toddler) and her mother But this is no ordinary chit chat, for the woman at the end of the line hasn t seen her daughter since she was three years old, and the man in the phone booth is the homeless drifter who abducted Cate from beside her sleeping parents over a decade ago Now Les has finally determined that the time has come for Cate to go home How will Cate cope with learning to love a mother she can t remember, and with learning to reject the father-figure she has loved for twelve years? How will her mother reconcile the memories of her three-year-old daughter with the hard-bitten, poorly educated and cy.
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