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That Girl From Nowhere

A gripping and emotional story from the bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls

Dorothy Koomson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cornerstone

Published:24th Mar '16

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From the bestselling author of TheIce 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 *

ISBN: 9780099598831

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 29mm

Weight: 319g

464 pages