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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Birlinn General

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781846974502

RRP: £8.99

PAGES: 256

PUBLICATION DATE:
June 7, 2018

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The Inheritance

Sheena Kalayil

Ben Martin is charming and successful: an academic who has raised money for children’s charities and worked with women’s agencies in sub-Saharan Africa, a devoted husband. But when his brother Francois, an artist based in Lisbon, finds out about Ben’s affair with a student, RitaKalungal, he finds himself feeling responsible both for his brother’s actions as well as Rita; and Rita begins to realise that her involvement withBen has far-reaching consequences on herself and her family, and others.

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Sheena Kalayil

Sheena Kalayil was born in Zambia in 1970 where her parents were teachers seconded from Kerala, India. She arrived in the UK aged eighteen and, after graduating, worked all over the world. She has a doctorate in Linguistics and teaches at the University of Manchester. She lives near Manchester with her husband and two daughters. Her first novel, The Bureau of Second Chances, won the Writers’ Guild Best First Novel Award in 2017.