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THAT GIRL FROM NOWHERE

Dorothy Koomson

The new novel from Dorothy Koomson, the bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls, The Woman He Loved Before and My Best Friend's Girl. An emotional thriller about love, identity and the meaning of family.
Where are you coming from with that accent of yours?' he asks.
'Nowhere,' I reply. 'I'm from nowhere.'
'Everyone's from somewhere,' he says.
'Not me,' I reply silently.

Clemency Smittson was adopted as a baby and the only connection she has to her birth mother is a cardboard box hand-decorated with butterflies. Now an adult, Clem decides to make a drastic life change and move to Brighton, where she was born. Clem has no idea that while there she'll meet someone who knows all about her butterfly box and what happened to her birth parents.

As the tangled truths about her adoption and childhood start to unravel, a series of shocking events cause Clem to reassess whether the price of having contact with her birth family could be too high to pay...

Dorothy wrote her first novel when she was thirteen years old, and hasn't stopped writing since. After finishing her masters degree, Dorothy began working as a writer, editing and subbing for various women's magazines and national newspapers. In 2001 Dorothy had the idea for The Cupid Effect - two years later it hit the shelves and her career as a published novelist began. Dorothy spent two years living in Australia, but now lives on the south coast of England where she continues to write.
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Published 2015-04-09 by Century

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Published 2015-04-09 by Century

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Dorothy Koomson’s THAT GIRL FROM NOWHERE, published on Thursday last week, has gone straight in to no. 6 in the Sunday Times bestseller listing this weekend. (April 16, 2015) number 5 in this week’s Bestseller chart (21.04.15)

The paperback edition of Dorothy Koomson’s novel, That Girl from Nowhere (published 24th March) has gone straight into the paperback fiction chart at Number 2.

I honestly think this is her best yet - very warm, engaging and moving, and a gripping story too. Random House UK putting massive marketing muscle behind it too.

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