We All Begin as Strangers
If you loved THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS AND SHEEP by Joanna Cannon, ELIZABETH IS MISSING by Emma Healey and THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY by Rachel Joyce, you'll adore this wonderful British debut novel. 1984, England Someone is slipping into homes through back doors and open windows in the village of Heathcote. What's more, the perpetrator knows everything about everyone - leaving curious objects in their homes, or taking things from them.
When beloved Anna goes missing, the whole community fears she's been kidnapped.
But as the villagers search for Anna, it's their own darkest secrets they're desperate to keep hidden...
Inspired by real events, and with a brilliant cast of characters, WE ALL BEGIN AS STRANGERS is a beautiful debut novel you'll want to recommend to everyone.
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Praise for WE ALL BEGIN AS STRANGERS:
'A dazzling debut... Beautifully plotted, fantastically written and compellingly strange' - DAILY MAIL
'I can see why it has been compared to THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS AND SHEEP as it has such a warm but heartbreaking feel to it' - Kate, Amazon reviewer
'A book about community and how trusts can be so easily broken' - WRITING.IE
'Explores ideas of loneliness and longing' - THE i NEWSPAPER
306 pages, 5 editions
English edition · First published 2017 by Orion Books · ISBN 9781409169048
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5 editions
English
- We All Begin as Strangers · Orion Books · 2017 · ISBN 9781409169048 This page
- We All Begin as Strangers · Charnwood · 2018 · ISBN 9781444836059
- We All Begin as Strangers · Orion Books · 2018 · ISBN 9781409169062
- We All Begin as Strangers · Orion Books · 2017 · ISBN 9781409169079
- We All Begin as Strangers · Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 2017 · ISBN 9781409169055
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