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    The Book of Guardians (Paperback) By (author) Derek Neale

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    Short Description for The Book of Guardians This is a detective story set in 1980s Shrewsbury and Toronto. A social worker, Philip Eyre, searches for the father of a baby girl and finds himself obsessed by the girl's mother who ends up in psychiatric hospital after trying to commit suicide. While investigating the case, Philip comes to question his own life -- his own fathering and father.
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    Title
    The Book of Guardians
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Derek Neale
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 264
    Width: 129 mm
    Height: 198 mm
    Thickness: 20 mm
    Weight: 408 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9781907773297
    ISBN 10: 1907773290
    Classifications
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: F1.1
    BISAC category code: FIC022000
    BICMainSubject: FA
    Publisher
    Salt Publishing
    Imprint name
    Salt Publishing
    Publication date
    15 July 2012
    Publication City/Country
    Cambridge/GB
    Biographical note
    Derek Neale is an award-winning writer. He taught creative writing at UEA for a number of years and has recently helped design a whole new generation of Open University courses, producing several practical books and recording interviews with playwrights, novelists, autobiographers and biographers about their approach to the art and craft of writing. The Book of Guardians is his first novel.
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    The Book of Guardians grips the reader from the start, fearlessly delving into our secret selves. Its discoveries are unsettling and sometimes macabre, the writing audacious and eloquent. -- Linda Anderson Derek Neale's first novel is a remarkable debut. "The Book of Guardians" is an often touching examination of the philosophy of 'care', which tackles head-on the alienation and uncertainty of contemporary lives. Neale has taken the great theme of the Victorians -- orphan-hood -- and produced a subtle and engaging romance of childhood and identity, a story of the quest for origins and the torments of memory, and of the startlingly random connections between the abandoned and the secure which weave the texture of a life in our times. -- Victor Sage