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\nPaperback: 208 pages
\nPublisher: HarperCollins
\nYear: 2003
\nISBN: 978-0007179367
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I<\/span>\u2019m not quite the person I was at 5.11pm yesterday afternoon. In fact, I may not be a person at all\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When Cassina is blown up in a bomb attack, life as she knows it is over. Except that she doesn\u2019t die. Cassina becomes a para-spirit \u2013 a presence that can live in other people\u2019s minds. Nobody knows she\u2019s there, but she can see their thoughts and feel their emotions. She just can\u2019t do a thing to change them.Being in the minds of her grieving parents is not good. Being in mad Aunt Lou\u2019s brain is an eye-opener. But Akim\u2019s head \u2013 that\u2019s a dangerous place. Because Cassina knows he\u2019s going to do something terrible, worse even than before. And it\u2019s up to her to stop him \u2013 but how?<\/p>\n

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Tender, thoughtful and idealistic, this is a tough but immensely worthwhile read.<\/em>
\nIndependent<\/p>\n

The sheer imaginative audacity of The Innocent\u2019s Story propels it beyond anything expected.<\/em>
\nJulia Eccleshare<\/div>\n

Nominated for the Carnegie Medal<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
E<\/span>veryone remembers where they were when the Twin Towers fell. I was in the park with my young daughter when news began to filter through and back home in front of the TV in time to see the second of the Towers fall. I remember exactly what passed through my mind at that moment: Who could hate us this much and me not know? and What could I do or give to these people so they never want to do this again? There\u2019s hubris in the first thought and danger in the second, but that\u2019s the truth of what I felt in that frozen-in-time moment. A year on we thought we knew who had \u2018done it\u2019 but as for the trigger behind the anger, the thing that would drive one human being to think it was appropriate to blow up another, that remained a mystery to me. And I wanted to know. But how could I get inside the head of a suicide bomber? My rather radical solution was The Innocent\u2019s Story<\/em>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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