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Accidents happen to other people. But on On May 10th 2002,Nina Bawden discovered what it feel...

Lonely and forlorn after their mother's death and their sudden arrival at Aunt Mabel's ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE LOST MAN BOOKER PRIZE'Nina Bawden gets inside the skins of all her people and...

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