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==General fiction==
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|author=Simon Lelic
|title=The Child Who
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=
Simon Lelic's third book, ''The Child Who'', takes him back to the format that worked so successfully with his first novel, ''Rupture'', avoiding the near-future angle he took, less successfully I felt, with his second book. Lelic's themes are always inspired by real events that have been in the news. Here, he tackles the murder of an 11 year old child by Daniel, a 12 year old. The creative inspiration is surely the James Bulger case and he acknowledges the creative debt to Blake Morrison's ''As If'' on that very subject.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330522744</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Heather Peace
