Mainlander /
by Smith, Will.
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BookPublisher: Leicester : Thorpe, 2017Edition: Large print edition.Description: 384 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781785411434; 1785411438.Subject(s): Teachers -- Fiction | Loneliness -- Fiction | Belonging (Social psychology) -- Fiction | Missing persons -- Fiction | Jersey -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | Large type booksSummary: Jersey, 1987: The storm clouds are gathering over Colin Bygate, a schoolteacher - and a Mainlander married to an Islander. Sitting on an outcrop, stewing after a row with his wife, Colin spots one of his pupils near the edge of a cliff. Worried that the boy might have intended to jump, he drives him home, hoping that his gloomy imagination has been exaggerating his concern. But when the boy fails to turn up at school the next day, Colin feels duty-bound to track him down - thus pitting himself against the Island establishment, who would rather there was a little less noise around this particular absence. In Jersey, where everyone knows everyone else's business, you must become your own island, especially when there are secrets to hide...
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Large Print - Adult | Formby Library | Large Print Adult Fiction | Available | 002862969X |
Jersey, 1987: The storm clouds are gathering over Colin Bygate, a schoolteacher - and a Mainlander married to an Islander. Sitting on an outcrop, stewing after a row with his wife, Colin spots one of his pupils near the edge of a cliff. Worried that the boy might have intended to jump, he drives him home, hoping that his gloomy imagination has been exaggerating his concern. But when the boy fails to turn up at school the next day, Colin feels duty-bound to track him down - thus pitting himself against the Island establishment, who would rather there was a little less noise around this particular absence. In Jersey, where everyone knows everyone else's business, you must become your own island, especially when there are secrets to hide...
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