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True Murder

by Yaba Badoe · 2009

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11-year-old Ajuba has been abandoned at a Devon boarding school by her Ghanaian father. Haunted by the circumstances of her mother's breakdown and the ghosts of the life she left behind in Ghana, she falls under the spell of new girl Polly Venus and her chaotic, glamorous family.

Genre
british mysterymystery
Setting
2000sdevonengland
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 262 pages

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