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62%OFFLucy Caldwell - All the Beggars Riding - 9780571270552 - KAC0000432
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All the Beggars Riding

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Description for All the Beggars Riding Paperback. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. (Trad) When Lara was twelve, and her younger brother Alfie eight, their father died in a helicopter crash. A prominent plastic surgeon, and Irishman, he had honed his skills on the bomb victims of the Troubles. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 20. Weight in Grams: 310. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. (Trad.)

When Lara was twelve, and her younger brother Alfie eight, their father died in a helicopter crash. A prominent plastic surgeon, and Irishman, he had honed his skills on the bomb victims of the Troubles. But the family grew up used to him being absent: he only came to London for two weekends a month to work at the Harley Street Clinic, where he met their mother years before, and they only once went on a family holiday together, to Spain, where their mother cried and their father lost his temper ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of pages
272
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571270552
SKU
KAC0000432
Shipping Time
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About Lucy Caldwell
Lucy Caldwell was born in Belfast in 1981. She read English at Queens' College, Cambridge, and is a graduate of Goldsmith's MA in Creative and Life Writing. Her debut novel Where They Were Missed (2006), was described in the Independent as 'beautifully paced, evocative and unfaltering . . . an object lesson in balancing the personal and the political'. ... Read more

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