Hearts and Minds B 英文原版

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‘This is a novel written with passion and moral outrage. It is a
vivid portrait of a city that is at once familiar and
disconcertingly strange THE TIMES Joan Smith ** ‘Rich, Dickensian
SUNDAY TIMES Penny Perrick ** ‘She is a humane writer as well a
waspish one and it is the plight of London’s migrant workers and
sink-school pupils with which she is primarily concerned here, and
her passion and care are affecting OBSERVER Lisa O’Kelly ** ‘There
is much in HEARTS AND MINDS to praise … The book displays the
author’s relentless compassion. A large kindness overarches the
novel GUARDIAN Stevie Davies

　　Rich or poor, five people, seemingly very different, find
their lives in the capital connected in undreamed-of ways. There is
Job, the illegal mini-cab driver whose wife in Zimbabwe no longer
answers his letters; Ian, the idealistic supply teacher in exile
from South Africa; Katie from New York, jilted and miserable as a
dogsbody at a political magazine, and fifteen-year-old Anna,
trafficked into sexual slavery. Polly Noble, an overworked human
rights lawyer, knows better than most how easy it is to fall
through the cracks into the abyss. Yet when her au pair, Iryna,
disappears, Polly’s own needs and beliefs drag her family into a
world of danger, deceit and terror. Riveting, humane, engaging,
HEARTS AND MINDS is a novel that is both entertaining and prepared
to ask the most serious questions about the way we live.

　　Amanda Craig is a well-known journalist and broadcaster. She
is the author of A VICIOUS CIRCLE, IN A DARK WOOD and LOVE IN
IDLENESS.