Weight | 0.160 kg |
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Dimensions | 143 × 124 × 24 mm |
ISBN | 9780571240623 |
Publication Year | 2008 |
Publisher | Faber and Faber |
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Something to Tell You (Audiobook CDs)
Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. Looking back to their coming of age in the 1970s, he and his friends face an encroaching middle age with the traumas of their youth still unresolved in this colourful and warm novel of London life.
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