Tainted Lives: A gritty page-turner that will have you hooked by Mandasue Heller

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Three abandoned children grow up to face even worse as adults, in the exhilarating new thriller from Mandasue Heller.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description

Sarah Mullen is a beautiful child who at seven years old is put into care by her drug-addicted mother. Trying to live with the rejection is bad enough, but no one could have prepared her for the pain that was yet to come.Harry Shaw is the boy that everyone bullies, the kid whose own mother locked him in a cupboard so she wouldn't have to look at his face, and then left him there.When he meets Sarah for the first time, a friendship is instantly forged. And out of a desire to be loved an alliance is born.Then into their lives comes Vinnie Walker, a good-looking and calculating thirteen-year-old who will change both their lives forever.

Notes

Gritty thriller about a dangerous friendship forged in a children's care home. From the author of Forget Me Not.

Author Biography

Mandasue was born in Cheshire and moved to Manchester in 1982. She spent ten years living in the notorious Hulme Crescents which have since become the background to her novels.Not only is she a talented writer, but she has also sung in cabaret and rock groups, seventies soul cover bands and blues jam bands.

Review

Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel - Martina Cole on Forget Me NotA cracking page-turner - Manchester Evening News on Forget Me NotPowerful writing - Scotland on Sunday on Forget Me NotAlarming and beguiling - The Scotsman on The Front

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Three abandoned children grow up to face even worse as adults, in the exhilarating new thriller from Mandasue Heller.

Long Description

Sarah Mullen is a beautiful child who at seven years old is put into care by her drug-addicted mother. Trying to live with the rejection is bad enough, but no one could have prepared her for the pain that was yet to come.Harry Shaw is the boy that everyone bullies, the kid whose own mother locked him in a cupboard so she wouldn't have to look at his face, and then left him there.When he meets Sarah for the first time, a friendship is instantly forged. And out of a desire to be loved an alliance is born.Then into their lives comes Vinnie Walker, a good-looking and calculating thirteen-year-old who will change both their lives forever.

Review Quote

These gritty urban thrillers, with their hard-hitting contemporary themes, mark the American debut of a gifted British crime novelist.

Promotional "Headline"

Three abandoned children grow up to face even worse as adults, in the exhilarating new thriller from Mandasue Heller.

Description for Sales People

A must for Martina Cole fans €" a gritty tale of friendship, rejection and murder.

Details ISBN0340735058 Author Mandasue Heller Short Title TAINTED LIVES Language English ISBN-10 0340735058 ISBN-13 9780340735053 Media Book Format Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Imprint Hodder Paperback Illustrations None Subtitle A gritty page-turner that will have you hooked DOI 10.1604/9780340735053 UK Release Date 2004-08-16 Pages 544 Publisher Hodder & Stoughton Year 2004 Publication Date 2004-08-16 DEWEY 823.92 Audience General AU Release Date 2004-09-08 NZ Release Date 2004-09-08 We've got this

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