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Synopsis
'..the best estimate we have shows that every five minutes a child goes missing in the UK'
Norman Stokoe has spent his life climbing the greasy pole. A career civil servant, he knows his way around. He can quote the numbers. He can provide the references. So when the new government decides to appoint regional 'Children's Czars', Norman is an obvious candidate. He settles down in his new leather chair behind his new desk overlooking the River Tyne and waits for the green light to begin his mission. The green light never comes.
What does happen is that two children go missing. Norman has built a career being 'strategic rather than operation' but now, faced with a campaigning journalist and a distraught mother, he is forced to become involved. Meanwhile Geordie Nixon, working deep in the wilderness of Kielder forest is seeing strange things. Are they for real or is he losing his mind? And what place is there in this brave new world for the miraculous?
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"We move from comedy, through pain, to a greater mystery than the mystery with which, on the ordinary level of crime and detection, the author has gripped us." "Scotsman" ..".remarkable novel." Pages of Julia
"Torday's clear talent is striking such a variety of notes, from soulful to satirical, and making them work as one bracing, bittersweet whole." "Seattle Times"on "Salmon" "Fishing in the Yemen""
"A remarkably assured first novel, this one is a pure delight."" Booklist" starred review of "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen""
"Torday delights in creepy details as he turns his created worls on its head; readers will be tempted to stay up late to finish reading but will need to keep all the lights on." Shelf Awareness"
Paul Torday is a remarkably original novelist EVENING STANDARD"
Paul Torday is a remarkably original novelist EVENING STANDARD"
One of the most outstanding authors to have emerged in recent years--DAILY EXPRESS
Torday, as he demonstrated in his debut novel SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN, is an extravagantly gifted writer--MAIL ON SUNDAY
Torday is one of the most original voices in modern fiction--METRO
Paul Torday is a remarkably original novelist--EVENING STANDARD
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From the author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN, a dark tale about a failing politician and the search for two missing children.
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- PublisherW&N
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0297867482
- ISBN 13 9780297867487
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
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