Hearts and Minds
Amanda Craig
Little, Brown £17.99
Best for: making your world a bit bigger
In this tense thriller, flustered mother and divorcee Polly Noble struggles to pursue her career, reliant on the help of cheap illegal labour. Interlaced with her story are four others; refugees from Africa, America and Eastern Europe, they share little except a desire to build their futures in North London. However, their lives become intertwined when a woman is found murdered in Hampstead ponds. Against the harrowing backdrop of prostitution, torture and trafficking, the book is full of courageous acts of kindness, each story providing a powerful account of loneliness and survival in a big city.
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