{"product_id":"family-likeness-9780099558682","title":"Family Likeness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a small Kent town in the 1950s, a bewildered little girl is growing up. Ostracised because of her colour, she tries her best to fit in, but nobody wants anything to do with her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA nanny climbs the steps of a smart London address. She's convinced that her connection to the family behind the door is more than professional. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd on the walls of an English stately home, amongst the family portraits, hangs an eighteenth-century oil painting of a mysterious black woman in a silk gown.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn ways both poignant and unexpected, the three lives are intertwined in a heartbreaking story of prejudice and motherless children, of chances missed, of war time secrets and the search for belonging...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautiful story of family and loss. Haunting and compelling. \u003c\/b\u003e -- Lisa Jewell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA quickly engaging domestic mystery … gently ingenious\u003c\/b\u003e * Sunday Herald *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavies is an unfussy and intelligent storyteller with a gift for translating the complexities of ordinary lives into novelistic form\u003c\/b\u003e * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eThis\u003cb\u003e moving tale\u003c\/b\u003e of life-long searches and accountability \u003cb\u003ewill pull at the heart strings\u003c\/b\u003e * The Lady *\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003cb\u003eabsorbing, beautifully-written\u003c\/b\u003e and very topical novel … Part mystery-novel, part historical, it is both readable and \u003cb\u003eentertaining\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Amanda Craig, author of Hearts and Minds","brand":"Cornerstone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151072883031,"sku":"9780099558682","price":14.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099558682.jpg?v=1762960016","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/family-likeness-9780099558682","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}