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Fiction featuring Care Experience

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Lost for words

Stephanie Butland

2017

Lost for Words features a care experienced character who is intelligent, articulate, a lover of words and books and of course feisty, vulnerable and not a stereotype. Loveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look closely, you might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. But there are things she'll never show you. Fifteen years ago Loveday lost all she knew and loved in one unspeakable night that led to her being taken into foster care.Now, she finds refuge in the unique little York bookshop where she works. Everything is about to change for Loveday. Someone knows about her past. Someone is trying to send her a message. And she can't hide any longer.--

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