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|author= Emma Craigie
|title= What Was Never Said
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= This story is narrated by Zahra, a teenage girl who spends her early years in her home country of Somalia before her family move to the UK to escape civil war. Inevitably, some traditions travel with them and in the novel Zahra recounts her efforts to protect herself and her younger sister, Samsam, against FGM, a practice that claimed the life of her older sister in Somalia several years previously. Zahra intersperses her account with flashbacks to Somalia and the civil war that drove them away, thus giving a clear picture of the trials that she and her family have faced.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178072179X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= David Finkle
|summary=Lying in a hospital bed, refusing visits from friends, Ivo is alone. Only his carer, Sheila, provides company - and she asks him to think of a different part of his body for each letter of the alphabet, and then to tell a tale about each one.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522647</amazonuk>
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