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That Girl from Nowhere

By: Dorothy Koomson
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Akiya Henry
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From the best-selling author of The Ice Cream Girls, The Woman He Loved Before, and My Best Friend's Girl, an emotional story about love, identity, and the meaning of family.

‘Where are you coming from with that accent of yours?’ he asks.

‘Nowhere,’ I reply. ‘I’m from nowhere.’

‘Everyone’s from somewhere,’ he says.

‘Not me,’ I reply silently.

Clemency Smittson was adopted as a baby, and the only connection she has to her birth mother is a cardboard box hand decorated with butterflies. Now an adult, Clem decides to make a drastic life change and move to Brighton, where she was born. Clem has no idea that while there she'll meet someone who knows all about her butterfly box and what happened to her birth parents.

As the tangled truths about her adoption and childhood start to unravel, a series of shocking events cause Clem to reassess whether the price of having contact with her birth family could be too high to pay....

©2015 Dorothy Koomson (P)2015 Random House Audiobooks Contemporary Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Adoption
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A bit slow to start, but can't stop listening once you're into it. Lots of twists and turns, so it keeps one captivated

Thoroughly enjoyable

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The narrator of this story made the emotions come to life. She was very believable. I highly recommend this book.

A wonderful story

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a lovely book that makes you feel good. definitely worth listening to. inside the mind of an adoptee

Sweet story

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the narrator's petulant tone really grated on me. I kept thinking: did the author mean the main character to be so sulky, defensive and difficult (and hard to warm to), or is it the narration? Other than that, a great story

Loved it but...

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