The Banker's Daughter
  • Published: 2 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448113118
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
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The Banker's Daughter

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2 Aug 2012
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A brilliantly tense debut novel that explores all the moral ambiguities of our money-dominated world.

All of our parents have secrets. But Hanna Mehdi's father is unusual. He ran a major bank that collapsed in suspicious circumstances. When it fell, he turned up at her door and told her they had to run away. They fled to a luxury hotel in Beirut which has now become home.

One day Hanna discovers that her father may have done far worse than make risky bets on the money markets. She finds a photograph that turns her privileged life upside down. As Hanna follows the trail of blood from Beirut to Lahore to London, her eyes are opened to the real world in which she has been living. Suddenly she is forced to grapple with the costs of her freedom and choose - the dull and guilty ease of being the banker's daughter? Or the rough comfort of facing up to the truth?
  • Published: 2 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448113118
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
Categories:

About the author

Emran Mian

Emran Mian is a civil servant working in the Cabinet Office. He wasn't involved in the bank bailouts; on the other hand, he did write the report that led to higher university tuition fees. He is a frequent contributor to Prospect magazine and the author of an acclaimed non-fiction book about the lives of autistic adults, Send In The Idiots: Stories from the Other Side of Autism. His first novel, The Banker's Daughter, was published in 2012.

Praise for The Banker's Daughter

A carefully controlled and intelligent thriller, this is also a convincing exploration of the paralysing effects of life in a gilded vacuum

Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail

A deliciously worldly tale of fear, betrayal and moral compromise

A.D. Miller

A stylish...blend of literary fiction and thriller

Catherine Taylor, Guardian

A terrific read, a page turner with complex and credible characters

Total Investor

An effective, atmospheric thriller

Anthony Cummins, Metro

Bold and eloquent…comments intelligently on our complicity in financial foul play

David Evans, Financial Times

Fast-paced thriller

Big Issue in the North

Mian has inveigled his way into the head of his female protagonist with uncanny sensitivity... A taut thriller... Absolutely convincing

Independent

Shrewdly observed

Charlotte Runcie, The List

This female-centric thriller gets to grips with financial and familial intrigue: a stylish debut

Emma Hagestadt, Independent
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