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The Other Hand
The Other Hand by Chris Cleave was shortlisted for the 2008 COSTA Novel Award. The novel is the story of two women, Little Bee and Sarah. Little Bee is a 16-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker who turns up on Sarah’s doorstep paperless and illegal after a brief but terrifying meeting on a Nigerian beach some years previous.Cleave`s novel alternates Little Bee`s traumatised but resilient voice as she observes the incongruities English life with the stubborn independence of Sarah, who struggles to maintain control as Little Bee`s arrival pitches her dynamic life into freefall.