The Stolen

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Pan Macmillan, Dec 3, 2010 - Juvenile Fiction - 272 pages

A cracking plot.... a thrilling unexpected twist' Sunday Telegraph

Life's a game - and someone's cheating....

Meredith is a new girl at school. An orphan, living with her elderly granny. She must be lonely - or so Carly thinks, trying to be nice.

But sometimes nice doesn't work. Sometimes people are worse than you could ever imagine. And Meredith has a secret - a story Carly can hardly begin to believe. About a girl with no future and someone else's past. A vicious old lady who refuses to die. A young life stolen. For Meredith is not Meredith at all....

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About the author (2010)

Alex Shearer lives with his family in Somerset. He has written more than a dozen books for both adults and children including The Greatest Shore in the World, The Great Blue Yonder, and The Speed of the Dark which was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, as well as many successful television series, films, and stage and radio plays. He has had over thirty different jobs, and has never given up trying to play the guitar.

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