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‘A clever and ingenious first novel’ Scotsman
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Candia McWilliam was born in Edinburgh in 1955. She is the author of A Case of Knives (1988), A Little Stranger (1989), and Debatable Land, which was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1994.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0747519331
- ISBN 13 9780747519331
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages231
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