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Border Crossing

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Tom Seymour is a child psychologist who has worked I the north of England for many years. One day, while walking by a river near his home, her rescues a young man from drowning, and realises that it is Danny Miller, a child murderer at whose trial he once gave evidence. Evidence he has since come to regard as flawed.
Danny has served his sentence and is out of prison. Now he’s asking for Tom’s help. But as Tom is drawn back, reluctantly, into Danny’s troubled world, he begins to question Danny’s motives – and his own.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Pat
Barker

Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration, which was made into a film of the same name, The Eye in the Door, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and The Ghost Road, which won the Booker Prize. She is also the author of the more recent novels Another World, Border Crossing, Double Vision and Life Class. She lives in Durham.

Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration, which was made into a film of the same name, The Eye in the Door, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and The Ghost Road, which won the Booker Prize. She is also the author of the more recent novels Another World, Border Crossing, Double Vision and Life Class. She lives in Durham.

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