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The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The Hiding Place is a deeply moving and intensely lyrical novel about love and betrayal.ĪBOUT THE AUTHOR : Trezza Azzopardi was born in Cardiff and lives in Norwich. ![]() It is a time of consolation, of memories and nightmares, and a chance for Dolores to understand the tragedy that has shaped her existence. Thirty years later, the estranged sisters return to Tiger Bay for their mothers funeral. As Dolores grows older, we see this strange underworld through her eyes: Tiger Bay is a place of gaming rooms and cafes, of crumbling houses and burning secrets, and for Dolores and her sisters, their home is a dangerous place, filled equally by fear and love. Growing up in the 1960s in Cardiffs poverty stricken Tiger Bay, her life is cursed from the start when, on the day of her birth, her father gambles and loses everything on a bet that Delores will be a boy. ![]() ![]() Dolores is the youngest of six daughters. My father would have flipped a coin and watched his fate come twirling down to earth. It portrays the life of a child condemned forever to bear the mark of a disintegrating family. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000, this is an extraordinary and heart-breaking novel set in Cardiff's Tiger Bay. The Hiding Place (Picador Classic) with an introduction by D J Taylor. ![]()
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