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Alarm Girl

Alarm Girl

Author(s): Hannah Vincent

Location(s): South Africa

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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When 11-year-old Indigo and her older brother Robin arrive in South Africa to stay with their father, they find a luxury lifestyle that is a world away from their modest existence back in England. But Indigo is uneasy in the foreign landscape and confused by the family’s silence surrounding her mother’s recent death. Unable to find solace in either new or old faces, she begins to harbour violent suspicions in place of the truth. Steeped in the dry heat of a South African summer, this keen and touching debut seamlessly interweaves the voices of Indigo and her mother, and beautifully captures the human desire to belong: in a family, in a country, in your own skin.

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Author: tripfiction

A sensitively written novella that explores family and loss, set against the wonderful backdrop of South Africa

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