LUCY CRUICKSHANKS
Lucy Cruickshanks’ novels have been shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award and Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize, named a Top Ten Book of the Year by The Bookbag, and featured widely in the press.
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A gripping and thought-provoking writer
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Combines a sense of literary with thriller. An author to keep your eyes on
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Lucy's writing is exotic, dangerous and slippery
CANDIS BOOK OF THE MONTH
SIMON SAVIDGE, SAVIDGE READS
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
THE LIBERATION'S CHILD
16 million dead. Two struggling survivors. A past no one can escape.
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In a Britain of the near future, where traces of genocide sit just below the surface, Thea and Dom are each struggling to bury their pasts and move on. Dom escaped London, but not his memories, and as he returns to the city of his childhood looking to heal, he finds only deeper wounds. Thea was never given the chance to forget – not even for a moment – and, now, her daughter is gone. As Dom and Thea’s paths collide, their search for the truth puts both of their lives in danger and uncovers that ‘Free and Equal Britain’ is more than just a memory. They unearth not only adoption crimes on an industrial scale, but links to fugitive FEB-era politicians that both Dom and Thea still have deeply personal reasons to resent — and fear.
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Will Dom discover the truth about the child he hoped would rebuild his family? Will Thea find her daughter? Or will the past continue to block their way?
THE TRADER OF SAIGON
In the chaos and corruption of 1980s' Vietnam, three desperate lives are about to collide in greed, fear and hope.
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Alexander is a US Army deserter; a man without country, trapped in a life he no longer controls and embroiled in the dark business of trading women. His latest victim is Hanh, a rural girl shackled by poverty and who sees his arrival as the answer to her prayers. Neither of them has ever met Phuc – a Vietnamese businessman who backed the wrong side in the war and is now unable to pay his personal and political debts to the Party. But his struggles are about to change both their lives.
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From a society torn apart by war comes a tale of savagery and salvation; a thrilling saga and an explosive debut novel.
THE ROAD TO RANGOON
From the heart of Burma's savage Rubyland comes a devastating thriller, as three lives are thrown together by the desperate choices they must make to survive in a country gripped by civil war.
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A gem smuggler and outcast, Thuza has lived her entire life in a frontier town, trapped between rebel and government forces, never choosing a side but trying to make a living from both. When Michael, the British Ambassador’s son, finds himself lost, exposed and with no way of getting back to Rangoon, his best hope is to trust her, when no one else does. For Than, an ambitious military officer, exploiting those caught up in the war offers the chance for promotion and respect. But as all three learn to their cost, in this beautiful but ruthless country, everyone has a price.
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The Road to Rangoon is a tale of ambition, ingenuity, brutality and hope that confirms Lucy Cruickshanks as a master storyteller.