Blood Family

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<p>Edward is four years old when he is locked away with his mother by her abusive, alcoholic partner, Harris. By the time an elderly neighbour spots his pale face peering through a crack in the boarded-up window and raises the alarm, he is seven.</p><p>Rescue comes, but lasting damage has been done. Sent to live with a kindly foster family, and then adopted, Edward struggles to adapt to normal life. Even as a teenager its still clear to his new family and schoolmates theres something odd about him.</p><p>Then one fateful day, Edward catches a glimpse of himself in a photograph. What he sees shocks him to the core a vision of Harris. Was this monster his father all along? And does that mean that, deep down, another Harris is waiting to break out?</p><p>Every step of progress Edward has made swiftly begins to unravel, and he has to decide whether his blood will determine his future.</p>

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Anne Fine is one of our most distinguished writers for children. She has written over fifty highly acclaimed books and has won numerous awards, including the Guardian Childrens Fiction Prize and both the Whitbread Childrens Book of the Year and the Carnegie Medal twice over. Anne was appointed the Childrens Laureate from 2001-3, and her work has been translated into over forty languages. In 2003 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an OBE. Anne lives in County Durham.

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