Simisola (v.o.)Hutchinson, 1994 - 323 pages In an English town, Inspector Wexford investigates attacks on black women which lead to murder. A study of the slave-like condition of foreign domestics in Britain, who are not given the status of immigrants so they can be deported if they agitate for more money. |
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Page 147
... round and round in my head . I've even started wondering if we'll ever have her body . I never could understand that , those people who lost sons in war and craved their - their remains . Or just wanted to know where they were buried ...
... round and round in my head . I've even started wondering if we'll ever have her body . I never could understand that , those people who lost sons in war and craved their - their remains . Or just wanted to know where they were buried ...
Page 236
... round but that young girl , she gone . ' ' What , gone out of sight ? ' ' I could see her , long way away , long way off down the road . ' " Tell me what she was wearing . ' ' Had a cloth round her head , a kind of a blue cloth . A ...
... round but that young girl , she gone . ' ' What , gone out of sight ? ' ' I could see her , long way away , long way off down the road . ' " Tell me what she was wearing . ' ' Had a cloth round her head , a kind of a blue cloth . A ...
Page 251
... round to the third . Perhaps he was being over - scrupulous . No one was following him , the idea was ridiculous , it wasn't as if he intended to stop outside Clifton Court , still less call on Kimberley Pearson , but he took the third ...
... round to the third . Perhaps he was being over - scrupulous . No one was following him , the idea was ridiculous , it wasn't as if he intended to stop outside Clifton Court , still less call on Kimberley Pearson , but he took the third ...
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