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The girl who disappeared / A.V. Denham.

Nā: Momo rauemi: TextTextKaiwhakaputa:Leicester : Ulverscroft, 2007.Edition: Large print edWhakaahuatanga: 302 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781846177040
  • 1846177049
Ngā marau: Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.914 22
Summary: Fifty-one-year old Hetty is an unmarried schoolteacher who has lived with her mother all her life. On her mother's death she is liberated and finds herself wooed by Clive and the widowed artist Tom, father of one of her students, Megan. Megan's friends, Jit and Balbiro, are Sikh cousins who are both facing arranged marriages. While Jit agrees and accepts her fate, Balbiro rebels against her family's choice and disappears. But, as Hetty and Jit both learn to manipulate events to their own advantage, the true horror of Balbiro's situation is revealed.
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Originally published: London: Robert Hale, 2006.

Fifty-one-year old Hetty is an unmarried schoolteacher who has lived with her mother all her life. On her mother's death she is liberated and finds herself wooed by Clive and the widowed artist Tom, father of one of her students, Megan. Megan's friends, Jit and Balbiro, are Sikh cousins who are both facing arranged marriages. While Jit agrees and accepts her fate, Balbiro rebels against her family's choice and disappears. But, as Hetty and Jit both learn to manipulate events to their own advantage, the true horror of Balbiro's situation is revealed.

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