Awards
Costa Novel Award
2009 Shortlist
The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
Judges: "A richly original novel full of shocks and wonders."
Little Bee is a 16-year-old African girl; Sarah is a magazine editor living in Kingston-upon-Thames; Charlie is her 4-year-old son but will only answer to 'Batman'. The Other Hand tells how their lives intertwine and was inspired by the author's early childhood in West Africa and a visit to a detention centre in Essex.
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