That Girl From Nowhere
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  • Published: 9 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9781473507296
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464

That Girl From Nowhere

A gripping and emotional story from the bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls

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9 Apr 2015
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9 Apr 2015
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27 Jun 2016
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From the bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls, The Woman He Loved Before and My Best Friend's Girl, an emotional story about love, identity and the meaning of family.

From the bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls, The Woman He Loved Before and My Best Friend's Girl, an emotional story about love, identity and the meaning of family.

‘Where are you coming from with that accent of yours?’ he asks.
‘Nowhere,’ I reply. ‘I’m from nowhere.’
‘Everyone’s from somewhere,’ he says.
‘Not me,’ I reply silently.

Clemency Smittson was adopted as a baby and the only connection she has to her birth mother is a cardboard box hand-decorated with butterflies. Now an adult, Clem decides to make a drastic life change and move to Brighton, where she was born. Clem has no idea that while there she'll meet someone who knows all about her butterfly box and what happened to her birth parents.

As the tangled truths about her adoption and childhood start to unravel, a series of shocking events cause Clem to reassess whether the price of having contact with her birth family could be too high to pay...
  • Published: 9 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9781473507296
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464
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About the author

Dorothy Koomson

Dorothy Koomson, The knitty-gritty. . .
Dorothy Koomson is the author of twelve novels including That Girl From Nowhere, The Chocolate Run, The Woman He Loved Before, The Ice Cream Girls and My Best Friend’s Girl. While writing The Friend she took up, in the name of research, knitting and cocktail mixing – two things that are oddly compatible. Give it a try.

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Also by Dorothy Koomson

The Brighton Mermaid
The Beach Wedding
The Friend
When I Was Invisible
From There to Here
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Praise for That Girl From Nowhere

Immediately gripping and relentlessly intense, this story grabs you by the innards right from the off

Heat

Cracker of a novel... completely involving from the get-go

Daily Mail

Packs an emotional punch

Sunday Mirror

Her best yet... powerful and beautifully written - and highly recommended!

Fabulous, Sun on Sunday

Complex and thrilling

Sun

Another brilliant read

Bella

This heart-rending novel will have you gripped from the start

Pride

Beautifully written and utterly intriguing, this kept me reading late into the night

Katie Fforde

Gripping and authentic, sweeping and emotional, Dorothy Koomson's writing takes the reader on a compelling journey into the world she has created

Rosanna Ley

A satisfying and moving story about love, relationships and the consequences of discovering the truth about the past

Cathy Woodman

A woman's journey to self-discovery is handled with warmth and intelligence in this thought-provoking page-turner

Louise Candlish

Dorothy Koomson mixes the story of a woman searching for her birth mother with a gripping mystery in That Girl from Nowhere

Good Housekeeping

I'm a big fan of Koomson's suspenseful novels and this lived up to expectations

Woman and Home

A thought-provoking and gripping emotional thriller

Candis

Packs an emotional punch

Sunday Mirror

Dorothy Koomson fans will not be disappointed with this

Daily Mail

A gripping read that fans of Dorothy Koomson will love

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