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First aid

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  • ""A novel of breathless literary suspense in which a mother's love for her daughter is tested by an act of domestic violence. After the incident, Jo's impulse is to run away, to escape the small town where her marriage has dissolved and a love affair has apparently soured, and to return with her children to the house in London where she herself grew up. But it is Jo's teenage daughter who actually runs away, jumping from the London-bound train between stations, turning up briefly at the home of her oblivious father and his unsympathetic new wife, then continuing to run, on her own and increasingly at risk"--Publisher web site - (October 2006)."
  • "Set in a town on England's Kent coast, First Aid takes place over one summer weekend. Jo's husband Peter has left her a couple of years ago, and she is now caring single-handedly for her teenage daughter, son and toddler. She works in a local junk shop. A love affair with a single man is just beginning to give her life new meaning when the man inexplicably lashes out and cuts her face. Jo packs her bags, and with her children takes the train to London to stay with her grandparents. But, a few miles into the journey, her daughter jumps off the train and runs away. As we follow Jo's attempts to explain things to her grandparents, and her daughter's uncomfortable nights on the junk shop floor, we gradually learn what led up to the attack - and how everyone would like to escape the ties that bind them and begin afresh."

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  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"

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  • "First aid : a novel"
  • "First aid"@en
  • "First aid"

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