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ISBN: 1 84659 013 2
Publication: 16 November 2006
Format: 13 x 20 cm
Edition: Paperback
Pages: 212pp
Price: £7.99

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Maggie Gee was chosen as one of Granta's original 'Best Young British Novelists'. She is the author of well-received novels The White Family and The Flood. She is the first female Chair of the Royal Society of Literature.

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In the distance, under a spreading tree, her elder children were debating with others. Usually they only saw her in the kitchen.

They spotted her just as she was leaving the campus and heading on down towards the wide white sand.

'Mum,' they called, astonished. 'Mum! Mu-uM! Where are you going?'

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