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The White Family by Maggie Gee for £1.99
Published by admin on July 21, 2009
July’s Metro Book Club title is The White Family by Maggie Gee.Alfred White, a London park-keeper, rules his home with a mixture of ferocity and tenderness that has estranged his three children. His daughter’s partner, Elroy, a black social-worker, is brought face to face with Alfred’s younger son Dirk, who hates and fears all black people. The scene is set for violence, and Alfred’s wife May is forced to choose between justice and kinship. This ground-breaking novel tackles the taboo subject of racial hatred, as it looks for the roots of violence within one British family.
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