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My name is Hope Arden. I am the girl the world forgets.
It started when I was sixteen years old.
A father forgetting to drive me to school. A mother setting the table for three, not four. A friend who looks at me and sees a stranger.
No matter what I do, the words I say, the crimes I commit - you will never remember who I am.
That makes my life tricky. It also makes me dangerous . . .
The Sudden Appearance of Hope is the tale of a girl no one remembers, yet her story will stay with you for ever.
Praise for Claire North:
'Just extraordinary' Claire Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go
'Beautiful and gripping' Guardian
'Little short of a masterpiece' Independent
'North's talent shines out' Sunday Times
'One of the fiction highlights of the decade' Judy Finnigan, Richard and Judy Book Club
About the author
Claire North is a pseudonym for Catherine Webb, a Carnegie Medal-nominated author whose debut novel was written when she was just fourteen years old. She has fast established herself as one of the most powerful and imaginative voices in modern fiction. Her first book published under the Claire North pen name was The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, which became a word-of-mouth bestseller and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. The follow-up, Touch, was described by the Independent as 'little short of a masterpiece'. Her next novel The Sudden Appearance of Hope won the 2017 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and The End of the Day was shortlisted for the 2017 Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award. Her latest novel 84K received widespread critical acclaim and was described by bestselling author Emily St. John Mandel as 'an eerily plausible dystopian masterpiece'. She lives in London.
Summary
My name is Hope Arden. I am the girl the world forgets.
It started when I was sixteen years old.
A father forgetting to drive me to school. A mother setting the table for three, not four. A friend who looks at me and sees a stranger.
No matter what I do, the words I say, the crimes I commit - you will never remember who I am.
That makes my life tricky. It also makes me dangerous . . .
The Sudden Appearance of Hope is the tale of a girl no one remembers, yet her story will stay with you for ever.
Praise for Claire North:
'Just extraordinary' Claire Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go
'Beautiful and gripping' Guardian
'Little short of a masterpiece' Independent
'North's talent shines out' Sunday Times
'One of the fiction highlights of the decade' Judy Finnigan, Richard and Judy Book Club
Foreword
The stunning new novel from the voice that brought you the word-of-mouth bestseller The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and the highly acclaimed Touch
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This is a book which is incredibly compelling, and incredibly heartbreaking at times. I could not put it down
Report
Well-paced, brilliant and balanced New York Times
