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Family Likeness Caitlin Davies

Family Likeness By Caitlin Davies

Family Likeness by Caitlin Davies


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Summary

In a small Kent town in the 1950s, a bewildered little girl is growing up. Ostracised because of her colour, she tries her best to fit in, but nobody wants anything to do with her. A nanny climbs the steps of a smart London address. She's convinced that her connection to the family behind the door is more than professional.

Family Likeness Summary

Family Likeness by Caitlin Davies

In a small Kent town in the 1950s, a bewildered little girl is growing up. Ostracised because of her colour, she tries her best to fit in, but nobody wants anything to do with her.

A nanny climbs the steps of a smart London address. She's convinced that her connection to the family behind the door is more than professional.

And on the walls of an English stately home, amongst the family portraits, hangs an eighteenth-century oil painting of a mysterious black woman in a silk gown.

In ways both poignant and unexpected, the three lives are intertwined in a heartbreaking story of prejudice and motherless children, of chances missed, of war time secrets and the search for belonging...

Family Likeness Reviews

A beautiful story of family and loss. Haunting and compelling. -- Lisa Jewell
A quickly engaging domestic mystery ... gently ingenious * Sunday Herald *
Davies is an unfussy and intelligent storyteller with a gift for translating the complexities of ordinary lives into novelistic form * Independent *
This moving tale of life-long searches and accountability will pull at the heart strings * The Lady *
An absorbing, beautifully-written and very topical novel ... Part mystery-novel, part historical, it is both readable and entertaining. -- Amanda Craig, author of Hearts and Minds

About Caitlin Davies

Caitlin Davies is a journalist, teacher, non-fiction writer and novelist. She lives in north London. Her most recent novel is The Ghost of Lily Painter.

Additional information

GOR005691328
9780099558682
0099558688
Family Likeness by Caitlin Davies
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Cornerstone
20140227
320
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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