Informationen zum Autor Joanna Cannon graduated from Leicester Medical School and worked as a hospital doctor, before specialising in psychiatry. Her first novel The Trouble With Goats and Sheep was a top ten bestseller in both hardback and paperback and was a Richard and Judy pick. She lives in the Peak District with her family and her dog. Klappentext Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, this "Sunday Times"-bestseller sees 84-year-old Florence take a fall in her nursing home, in the midst of a newcomer to the home looking exactly like a man she knew sixty years before. Redemption and reconciling yourself with the past are explored in this title from the author of "The Trouble With Goats & Sheep". Zusammenfassung The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Lovely, lovely, lovely Sue Townsend meets Kate Atkinson meets Nina Stibbe' MARIAN KEYES 'Powerful and profound' Guardian 'Another sure-fire hit' Daily Mail 'Funny, melancholy, acutely observant' Sunday Express 'Cannon is so attuned to other people's stories a chronicler both of the human condition and the quotidian details which speak to who we are' Guardian 84-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she considers the charming new resident who looks exactly like a man she once knew a man who died sixty years ago. His arrival has stirred distant memories she and Elsie thought they'd laid to rest. Lying prone in the front room, Florence wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light

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Joanna Cannon

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Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, this "Sunday Times"-bestseller sees 84-year-old Florence take a fall in her nursing home, in the midst of a newcomer to the home looking exactly like a man she knew sixty years before. Redemption and reconciling yourself with the past are explored in this title from the author of "The Trouble With Goats & Sheep".

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**The Sunday Times Bestseller**

'Lovely, lovely, lovely Sue Townsend meets Kate Atkinson meets Nina Stibbe' MARIAN KEYES

'Powerful and profound' Guardian

'Another sure-fire hit' Daily Mail

'Funny, melancholy, acutely observant' Sunday Express

'Cannon is so attuned to other people's stories a chronicler both of the human condition and the quotidian details which speak to who we are' Guardian

84-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she considers the charming new resident who looks exactly like a man she once knew a man who died sixty years ago. His arrival has stirred distant memories she and Elsie thought they'd laid to rest. Lying prone in the front room, Florence wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light