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She’s Not There
Tamsin Grey
'A wonderful, artfully addictive novel' IAN MCEWANWhen Jonah and Raff wake up on Monday, their mother Lucy isn’t there.Although he’s only nine, Jonah knows enough about the world to keep her absence a secret. If anyone found out she’d left them alone, who knows what could happen to him and his little brother?As the days go on, he puzzles over the clues left behind: who sent Lucy flowers? Why is her phone in a plant pot? Why are all her shoes still there? And who in their neighbourhood might know more about Lucy than he does?
Copyright (#ulink_1c8afd00-074a-5093-8caa-45f241ccb755)
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, whilst at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.
The Borough Press
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Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
Tamsin Grey asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Copyright © Tamsin Grey 2018
Excerpt from James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
reprinted by permission of Penguin Books. © Roald Dahl 1961
Excerpts from The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò by Edward Lear
Cover design by Micaela Alcaino © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2018
Cover photographs © Elisabeth Ansley / Trevillion Images (http://www.trevillion.com/) (boys), Shutterstock.com (https://www.shutterstock.com/) (city)
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Source ISBN: 9780008245634
Ebook Edition © May 2018 ISBN: 9780008245627
Version: 2018-11-02
Praise for She’s Not There (#ulink_20c1d3a1-ccd0-5df3-93f3-354bb8172a7a)
‘Tamsin Grey is wise about the street, and wise about the heart, especially the hearts of children. Her multi-racial London pulses with Dickensian energy and delight. She has that rare gift of combining in her prose the lyrical with the precise. She’s Not There is a wonderful, artfully addictive novel’
IAN MCEWAN
‘Brilliant and heartbreaking (and funny)’
KIT de WAAL
‘[An] amazing debut, packed with South London atmosphere . . . it has To Kill a Mockingbird written all over it . . . brilliant’
DAILY MAIL
‘Mesmerisingly good’
LISA JEWELL
‘Tamsin Grey’s young narrator inhabits a south London that is diverse, inclusive and very real. She’s Not There is a beautiful, sad, strong story, enticingly told – and an extremely assured debut’
STELLA DUFFY
‘There’s an almost unbearable tenderness to Tamsin Grey’s sad, sweet debut’
PSYCHOLOGIES
‘A gripping read, the voices of the children are pitch perfect and will stay with you long after the last page’
ROSIE BOYCOTT
Dedication (#ulink_ed8b1516-d053-513d-9c7e-0f120e4b659b)
In memory of the artist
Michael Kidner RA
1917 – 2009
Contents
Cover (#u38ec41b6-78a0-5980-b247-259ab0adc572)
Title Page (#u7146416a-3e65-51d2-aef7-7221a6d35c9f)
Copyright (#u2784f57e-fa6f-589f-9634-df941cfbe275)
Praise for She’s Not There (#u1dead61c-f04f-54fd-b20f-d4014e6f23c0)
Dedication (#u7418904a-16fc-5e23-951d-2d66b18bf13f)
July 2018 (#u5875f319-9ab7-5fa2-9851-f51a7298a0f4)
Chapter 1 (#ue5afecb3-8224-5e0d-9ec0-97b37ba900b3)
Chapter 2 (#uad878bde-26e1-5b39-9586-92bfa2ac3a11)
Chapter 3 (#u9c522cf9-2215-5aef-953d-576a289b0388)
July 2013: Monday (#uf6e5bd05-d5a8-5ef1-ac7d-cfdad6fbf102)
Chapter 4 (#ub79e340b-904a-567b-8b5b-38bf55645575)
Chapter 5 (#u2006b260-700d-5b19-93ca-8d3afe88d685)
Chapter 6 (#ubfc9e24b-d236-5954-9b81-d870cb4db643)
Chapter 7 (#ua1e98c80-d4cb-51d9-a86a-c3d4c3d92be0)
Chapter 8 (#u7b45c9c6-de38-52c1-abe7-5ac8ad901746)
Chapter 9 (#u42062e37-2060-5473-8f57-af84ef5edf18)
Chapter 10 (#u26cc8eb8-0a5a-5bf6-a59f-471b77d3b40a)
Chapter 11 (#u492351f9-795f-5285-ab62-3bc3fc39b7eb)
Chapter 12 (#uf1c9984c-77d0-515f-8d71-868dda871b29)
Chapter 13 (#u71fbe720-b106-5771-a131-2df9693db649)
Chapter 14 (#udc247c99-8867-50ed-8d36-221142d05211)
Chapter 15 (#u0084fb16-c65d-5800-96a4-44e1965fcc82)
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Chapter 17 (#u0f9bcc94-8c30-5edf-8b6e-f0c05ebbb20e)
Chapter 18 (#u9609906d-d955-5d93-a5e6-e6be23d9f970)
Chapter 19 (#u51fbb1c0-00b1-5f3d-8d4a-b0c1c8d9dec9)
Chapter 20 (#udd9cb3fc-061f-54bf-a681-016b6dcf5a0a)
Tuesday (#litres_trial_promo)
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Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 24 (#litres_trial_promo)
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Chapter 26 (#litres_trial_promo)
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Chapter 28 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 29 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 30 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 31 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 32 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 33 (#litres_trial_promo)
Wednesday (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 34 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 35 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 36 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 37 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 38 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 39 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 40 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 41 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 42 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 43 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 44 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 45 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 46 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 47 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 48 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 49 (#litres_trial_promo)
