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A Sheltered Woman

58 Ratings

3.6

Duration
39min
Language
English
Format
Category

Fiction

Winner of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize

Auntie Mei is a live-in nanny for newborns and their mothers. She has worked for a hundred and twenty-six families and looked after a hundred and thirty-one babies, one set of clients easily replaced by the next. But the hundred and thirty-second baby and his mother Chanel prompts a crisis in Auntie Mei’s life – a tremor that threatens to destroy her resolute detachment.

© 2015 Fourth Estate (Audiobook): 9780008153687

Release date

Audiobook: 16 July 2015

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