Other People's Children - Ben Faccini Crime Through the lives of Elena

Through the lives of Elena and Lila

During Barbara Jeffery's research at the India Office Library and the National Archives she has unearthed an extraordinary story: one document was opened specially for her and she was obliged to read it in a locked room

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Other People's Children - Ben Faccini Crime Through the lives of ElenaA story of complicated families and a wartime secret that ripples down through the generations from a writer of exceptional talent. Tommaso is just about making it work: travelling abroad for his job, helping his girlfriend with her two unruly sons, and keeping up with the eccentricities of his Italian grandmother, Alma. But as Alma grows increasingly troubled by strange and unsettling memories, Tommaso realises that there is much in her past that he