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Take an ordinary, well-off family like the Prices. Watch what happens when one Sunday seventeen-year-old Hannah disappears without a trace. See how the family rallies when a ransom note demands half a million pounds for Hannah's safe return. But it's when Hannah comes home that the story really begins. Now observe what happens to a family when they lose their house, their status, all their wealth. Note how they disintegrate under the pressures of guilt and poverty and are forced to confront show more their true selves. And, finally, wait to hear about Hannah, who has the most shocking surprise in store of all. show less

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I have read Deborah Moggach in the long distant past and watched some of her TV work too so this book caught my eye in the second hand shop. I really enjoyed reading this book made better for me as I am familiar with the location of Stanmore and some of the other places in the book.
The story is about a wealthy and successful family whose eldest daughter is kidnapped and ransomed for money. The personal and financial repercussions are devastating but it is the detailed characters and their responses to their circumstances which hold the readers attention. In a bizzare turn of events by the end of the book I was rooting for Hannah and one of her kidnappers Jon to end up together and live happily ever after! Great writing and a thoroughly show more good read. show less
This is a good 'what if' story: What if....your teenage daughter is kidnapped and a ransom demanded. What if, instead of involving the police, you find the money and pay it. And she comes back. But that isn't the end of it.

Another excellent read from Deborah Moggach - she knows how to dramatise everyday life, and she writes with great wit and perception.
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De familie Price leidt een rustig en welvarend bestaan in
het groene Stanmore. Dan komt hun zeventienjarige dochter
Hannah op de dag niet thuis. Twee dagen later ligt haar
neusknopje op de deurmat en komt er via de fax een eis om
losgeld binnen. De ouders van Hannah willen de politie niet
bij de ontvoering betrekken en besluiten te betalen. Door
het hoge losgeld raken ze echter langzaam maar zeker alles
kwijt: hun huis, de vader zijn bedrijf en de moeder haar
baan. Hannah is inmiddels emotioneel steeds meer betrokken
geraakt bij haar ontvoerders.Deze zijn bepaald niet de
doorgewinterde criminelen die je in een zaak als deze
verwacht.......

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Deborah Moggach lives in London. (Bowker Author Biography)

Common Knowledge

Canonical title*
Deining
Original publication date
1996
People/Characters
Hannah Price; Val Price; Morris Price; Jon; Eva
Important places
Stanmore
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Genres
Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
LCC
PR6063 .O44 .S43Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000
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Dutch, English, Hungarian, Swedish
Media
Paper, Ebook
ISBNs
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