Rich or poor, five people, seemingly very different, find their lives in the capital connected in undreamed-of ways. There is Job, the illegal mini-cab driver whose wife in Zimbabwe no longer answers his letters; Ian, the idealistic supply teacher in exile from South Africa; Katie from New York, jilted and miserable as a dogsbody at a political magazine, and fifteen-year-old Anna, trafficked into sexual slavery. Polly Noble, an overworked human rights lawyer, knows better than most how easy it is to fall through the cracks into the abyss. Yet when her au pair, Iryna, disappears, Polly's own needs and beliefs drag her family into a world of danger, deceit and terror. Riveting, humane, engaging, HEARTS AND MINDS is a novel that is both entertaining and prepared to ask the most serious questions about the way we live.
| ISBN | 1408701901 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9781408701904
(What's this?) | | Pages | 432 | | Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Little, Brown | | Previous ISBN | 9780316724838 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Publication date | 30 Apr 2009 | | Width (mm) | 153 | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | Academic level | General |
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'Craig's excellence lies in her ability to underpin everything with hope and the promise of redemption' Philip Womack, Daily Telegraph. 'This is a novel written with passion and moral outrage. It is a vivid portrait of a city that is at once familiar and disconcertingly strange' Joan Smith, The Times. 'Rich, Dickensian' Penny Perrick, SUNDAY TIMES. 'Throughout, the writing is confident, purposeful, quietly dynamic... Impressively, the narrative's contained momentum is achieved neither at the expense of humour (which is sharp and almost entirely successful), nor of Craig's characters' Stephanie Cross, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. 'Her style is immediate and precise, and convincingly dramatic... Compelling... a terrific read' Yasmin Alibai-Brown, INDEPENDENT.
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