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Published
Penguin, March 2009
ISBN
9780143009535
Format
Softcover, 384 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 2.9cm

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Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandmas Ade's warning that bad luck is coming. In the year that follows the family foundations are rocked to the core.

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