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Ghost Children

10 Ratings

4.1

Duration
5H 51min
Language
English
Format
Category

Fiction

Ghost Children is a compassionate and gritty examination of love and loss from one of Britain's most-loved writers, Sue Townsend

How can she leave the past behind when he won't let her?

Seventeen years ago Angela Carr aborted an unwanted child. The child's father, Christopher Moore, was devastated by the loss and he retreated from the world. Unable to accept what had happened between them both went their separate ways.

However, when Christopher makes a horrifying discovery whilst out walking his dog on the heath he finds that he is compelled to confront Angela about the past. As they start seeing each another again can they avoid the mistakes of the past? And will their future together be eclipsed by those mistakes of yesterday?

'Gripping and disturbing. Utterly absorbing' Independent

'Bleak, tender and deeply affecting. Seldom have I rooted so hard for a set of fictional individuals' Mail on Sunday

'Leaves one gasping for more' Daily Telegraph

'Engrossing, memorable and moving' Guardian

'Startling and raw' OBSERVER

© 2013 W. F. Howes Ltd (Audiobook): 9781471242021

Release date

Audiobook: 4 July 2013

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