Hearts and Minds
Amanda Craig

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Entrepreneurs and cooks, au pairs and cleaners – London’s immigrant population floods into jobs and spaces unwanted by the legitimate majority. Against the backdrop of the city’s elegant terraces and conspicuous wealth, these men and women are powerless, invisible, and untraceable. So when a girls’ corpse is fished from Hampstead Ponds one morning, she could be anyone…

Rich or poor, five people, seemingly very different, find their lives in the capital connected in undreamed-of ways. Job, the illegal mini-cab driver whose wife in Zimbabwe no longer answers his letters; Ian, the idealistic supply teacher in exile from South Africa; Katie from New York, jilted and miserable as a dogsbody at a political magazine and fifteen-year-old Anna, trafficked into sexual slavery. Polly Noble, an overworked human rights lawyer, knows better than most how easy it is to fall through the cracks into the abyss. Yet when her au pair, Iryna, disappears, Polly’s own needs and beliefs drag her family into a world of danger, deceit and terror.

Amanda Craig

was born in South Africa in 1959, the daughter of anti-Apartheid journalists who covered the Sharpeville massacre. She grew up in England and Italy, attended Bedales and went on to read English at Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of five previous novels – Foreign Bodies; A Private Place; A Vicious Circle; In a Dark Wood and Love in Idleness – is children’s critic for The Times and lives in London.

www.amandacraig.com

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