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''One of the bad girls of gritty crime'' Daily Mirror

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.

''A cracking read that will chill you to the bone'' Sun on Two-Faced

''Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel'' Martina Cole on Forget-Me-Not



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Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel * Martina Cole on Forget Me Not *
A cracking page-turner * Manchester Evening News on Forget Me Not *
Powerful writing * Scotland on Sunday on Forget Me Not *
Alarming and beguiling * The Scotsman on The Front *

Tainted Lives

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      Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
      Publication Date: 16/08/2004
      ISBN13: 9780340735053, 978-0340735053
      ISBN10: 340735058

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''One of the bad girls of gritty crime'' Daily Mirror

      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.

      ''A cracking read that will chill you to the bone'' Sun on Two-Faced

      ''Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel'' Martina Cole on Forget-Me-Not



      Trade Review
      Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel * Martina Cole on Forget Me Not *
      A cracking page-turner * Manchester Evening News on Forget Me Not *
      Powerful writing * Scotland on Sunday on Forget Me Not *
      Alarming and beguiling * The Scotsman on The Front *

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