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In Between Dreams

In Between Dreams

by ImanVerjee (Author)

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    Hardcover 2014

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Synopsis

How do you make a life for yourself when all you have are lies?

Growing up in a sleepy town with parents who adore her, it's difficult to understand why Frances is the way she is: friendless, manipulative and at times very cruel. But once she leaves home for boarding school, a different Frances begins to emerge as she starts to question everything that she had accepted as normal: her beloved father, her overbearing mother, her grandmother who refuses to speak - her whole white-picket fence life.

When uncomfortable truths finally emerge, will the family be able to survive?

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 384
 Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 15 May 2014
ISBN 10: 1780743963
ISBN 13: 9781780743967
Book Overview: 'Lyrically written, emotionally explosive, the story of Frances is one that will continue to haunt the reader's thoughts long after the last page is finished. Verjee tells a story of a fractured family, depicting with empathy both predator and victim, suggesting that true healing and transformation becomes possible only in a world of greater compassion and understanding. Her novel is a testament to the ways our society fails to provide adequate resources to a family in trouble and how that lack of help leads only to a heartbreaking cycle of secrecy, suicide, alienation, and more abuse. On top of that, it is also an astonishing and artful debut by an unusually gifted young writer.' -- Margaux Fragoso, author of Tiger, Tiger

Media Reviews
`Lyrically written, emotionally explosive, the story of Frances is one that will continue to haunt the reader's thoughts long after the last page is finished... an astonishing and artful debut by an unusually gifted young writer.' -- Margaux Fragoso, author of Tiger, Tiger
Author Bio
Iman Verjee won the 2012 Peters Fraser & Dunlop/City University Prize for Fiction for her debut novel In Between Dreams, which she wrote whilst completing an MA in Creative Writing at City University. Prior to studying in London she studied psychology at the University of Alberta in Canada. She now lives in Edmonton, Canada having emigrated from Nairobi, Kenya in 2014.