โ Robert I Katz
๐ Fiction
๐
2018
๐ English
โ 134 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Brixton Beach
โ Scribed by Roma Tearne
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers;HarperPress
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 245 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0007330774
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Opening dramatically with the horrors of the 2005 London bombings, this is the profoundly moving story of a country on the brink of civil war and a child's struggle to come to terms with loss. London. On a bright July morning a series of bombs bring the capital to a halt. Simon Swann, a medic from one of the large teaching hospitals, is searching frantically amongst the chaos and the rubble. All around police sirens and ambulances are screaming but Simon does not hear. He is out of breath because he has been running, and he is distraught. But who is he looking for? To find out we have first to go back thirty years to a small island in the Indian Ocean where a little girl named Alice Fonseka is learning to ride a bicycle on the beach. The island is Sri Lanka, with its community on the brink of civil war. Alice's life is about to change forever. Soon she will have to leave for England, abandoning her beloved grandfather, and accompanied by her mother Sita, a woman broken by a series...
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