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The Girls from Alexandria

Author(s): Carol Cooper

Location(s): Alexandria, England

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1950s onwards

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Memories are fragile when you are seventy years old. I can’t afford to lose any more of them, not when remembering the past might help with the here and now.

Nadia needs help. Help getting out of her hospital bed. Help taking her pills. One thing she doesn’t need help with is remembering her sister. But she does need help finding her.

Alone and abandoned in a London hospital, 70-year-old Nadia is facing the rest of her life spent in a care home unless she can contact her sister Simone… who’s been missing for 50 years.

Despite being told she’s ‘confused’ and not quite understanding how wi-fi works, Nadia is determined to find Simone. So with only cryptic postcards and her own jumbled memories to go on, Nadia must race against her own fading faculties and find her sister before she herself is forgotten.

Set against the lush and glamorous backdrop of 20th century Alexandria, Carol Cooper’s third novel is equal parts contemporary mystery and historical fiction: a re-coming of age story about family, identity, and homeland.

HERE the author talks about the inspiration for the setting

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Author: Tina Hartas

Nadia is in her seventies and is currently in a London hospital, recovering from a procedure. She is struggling to find her balance, has headaches, fights to remember things and it seems that she...

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