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|summary=Three women leading three very different lives, find their paths not just crossing but entwined. Each of them is hiding or running from their past, and only when they revisit that 'other country' can they hope to move into the future. Stark lives gently unfold... some harshness but ultimately an uplifting read.

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Emily ''easier for English people to pronounce than Emilienne'', lives in a council tower block, barely furnished, but still - for her - a place of safety, a place of anonymity, which is the best way for her to exist. She cleans commercial premises and relishes the work. She makes her small earnings go as far as possible, shopping locally, living frugally.