This exceptional novel about family, love, and the innocence and terror of childhood was one of the most applauded and auspicious debuts of the last year.
Set in a Maltese immigrant community in Cardiff, Wa. national best-seller.
Compared by reviewers to Angela\'s Ashes and Wuthering Heights, The Hiding Place was the only debut work to be shortlisted for England\'s prestigious Booker Prize -- in the company of Kazuo Ishiguro and Margaret Atwood -- and went on to become a universally praised U.
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This exceptional novel about family, love, and the innocence and terror of childhood was one of the most applauded and auspicious debuts of the last year