That Girl From Nowhere by Dorothy Koomson
From the bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls, The Woman He Loved Before and My Best Friend's Girl, an emotional story about love, identity and the meaning of family. ‘Where are you coming from with that accent of yours?’ he asks. ‘Nowhere,’ I reply. ‘I’m from nowhere.’ ‘Everyone’s from somewhere,’ he says. ‘Not me,’ I reply silently. Clemency Smittson was adopted as a baby and the only connection she has to her birth mother is a cardboard box hand-decorated with butterflies. Now an adult, Clem decides to make a drastic life change and move to Brighton, where she was born. Clem has no idea that while there she'll meet someone who knows all about her butterfly box and what happened to her birth parents. As the tangled truths about her adoption and childhood start to unravel, a series of shocking events cause Clem to reassess whether the price of having contact with her birth family could be too high to pay...
Immediately gripping and relentlessly intense, this story grabs you by the innards right from the off * Heat *
Cracker of a novel.. completely involving from the get-go * Daily Mail *
Packs an emotional punch * Sunday Mirror *
Her best yet... powerful and beautifully written - and highly recommended! * Fabulous, Sun on Sunday *
Complex and thrilling * Sun *
Cracker of a novel.. completely involving from the get-go * Daily Mail *
Packs an emotional punch * Sunday Mirror *
Her best yet... powerful and beautifully written - and highly recommended! * Fabulous, Sun on Sunday *
Complex and thrilling * Sun *
Dorothy Koomson, The knitty-gritty. . .
Dorothy Koomson is the author of twelve novels including That Girl From Nowhere, The Chocolate Run, The Woman He Loved Before, The Ice Cream Girls and My Best Friend’s Girl. While writing The Friend she took up, in the name of research, knitting and cocktail mixing – two things that are oddly compatible. Give it a try.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780893341 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780893345 |
| Title | That Girl From Nowhere |
| Author | Dorothy Koomson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2015-04-09 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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