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Silver Sparrow

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Pub Date 19 Mar 2020 | Archive Date 17 Mar 2020

General Fiction (Adult) | Women's Fiction

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A Most Anticipated Book for 2020 according to The Sunday Times, the FT and the Guardian A breathtaking tale of family secrets, from the author of 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction winner An American Marriage 'My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist.' This is the breathtaking story of a man's deception, a family's complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle. James Witherspoon has two families, one public, the other a closely guarded secret. But when his daughters meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows the truth. Theirs is a relationship destined to explode.
A Most Anticipated Book for 2020 according to The Sunday Times, the FT and the Guardian A breathtaking tale of family secrets, from the author of 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction winner An American...
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Advance Praise

‘A love story... Full of perverse wisdom and proud joy... Jones's skill for wry understatement never wavers.’ O The Oprah Magazine
‘Silver Sparrow will break your heart before you even know it. Tayari Jones has written a novel filled with characters I'll never forget. This is a book I'll read more than once.’ Judy Blume
‘Charting a vast emotional unknown is Tayari Jones's compelling third novel, Silver Sparrow, in which a teenage girl's coming of age in 1980s Atlanta is shadowed by her dawning understanding of a corrosive secret – her father's second family.’ Vogue

‘A love story... Full of perverse wisdom and proud joy... Jones's skill for wry understatement never wavers.’ O The Oprah Magazine
‘Silver Sparrow will break your heart before you even know it. Tayari...

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Available Editions

EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9781786077967
PRICE £16.99 (GBP)

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