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If you buy the book using that link, i will receive a small commission from the sale. Now, however, she is turning many heads with her debut fiction novel the versions of us. Lauras barnetts new book greatest hits is available for preorder now. An affecting and thoughtprovoking work, the versions of us will keep you gripped until the tearjerking conclusion. Laura barnett is a writer, journalist, and theatre critic. Laura barnett was born in 1982 in south london, where she now lives with her husband. When the whitmans, a nouveau riche white family, move into a sprawling, newly built house next door to valerie alstonholt, a black professor of forestry and ecology, and her musically gifted, biracial 18yearold son, xavier, in a modest, diverse. When the whitmans, a nouveau riche white family, move into a sprawling, newly built house next door to valerie alstonholt, a black professor of forestry and ecology, and her musically gifted, biracial 18yearold son, xavier, in a modest, diverse north carolina neighborhood of. The versions of us ebook by laura barnett 9780544634473. Eva is injured in a cycling accident after swerving to avoid a dog and from this point onwards, there are three versions of their story.
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Book club questions for the versions of us by laura barnett. The versions of us pinellas public library cooperative. Learn more about possible network issues or contact support for more help. Her first novel, the versions of us, will be published in english, german, spanish, italian, french, portuguese, czech, and mandarin. Finding ideas isnt usually a problem its choosing the right one, the debut novelist writes, and working out how to make it live on the page. What if one small decision could change the rest of your life. She writes regularly for the guardian, the observer, and the daily telegraph. Sunday telegraphstunningly crafted and constantly surprising.
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Do you have any thoughts, questions or discussions about the versions of us by laura barnett. The uk hardback edition of the versions of us was waterstones fiction book of the month for june 2015, and the paperback won the spring 2016 richard and judy book club and was a waterstones book club choice. She studied spanish and italian at cambridge university, and newspaper journalism at city university, london. Translation rights have been sold in 24 other countries so far, and the novel has been optioned for a tv adaptation by trademark films. This post contains affiliate links which you can use to purchase the book. Sunday times the versions of us is well written, deftly crafted and constantly surprising, in the way that chaotic real life is surprising. A woman, cycling towards him, swerves to avoid a dog.
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