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The undesired

Yrsa Sigurðardóttir2016
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The light spilling in from the corridor would have to do. Though weak, it was sufficient to show Aldis a boy sitting in the gloom at the furthest table. He had his back to her, so she couldn't see who it was, but could tell that he was one of the youngest. A chill ran down her spine when he spoke again, without turning, as if he had eyes in the back of his head. 'Go away. Leave me alone'. 'Come on. You shouldn't be here'. Aldis spoke gently, fairly sure now that the boy must be delirious. Confused, rather than dangerous. He turned, slowly and deliberately, and she glimpsed black eyes in a pale face. 'I wasn't talking to you'. Aldis is working in a juvenile detention centre in rural Iceland. She witnesses something deeply disturbing in the middle of the night; soon afterwards, two of the boys at the centre are dead.
Main title:
The undesired / Yrsa Sigurdardóttir ; translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Hodder, 2016.London : Hodder, 2016.
Collation:
353 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Icelandic.This translation originally published: 2015.
ISBN:
9781444778304 (pbk)
Dewey class:
839.6935FFICTION
Local class:
F
Language:
EnglishIcelandic
Added title:
BRN:
1787989
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