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description: Memories are fragile when you are seventy years old. I cant afford to lose any more of them not when remembering the past might help with the here and now.Nadia needs help. Help getting out of her hospital bed. Help taking her pills. One thing she doesnt need help with is remembering her sister. But she does need help finding her.Alone and abandoned in a London hospital 70-year-old Nadia is facing the rest of her life spent in a care home unless she can contact her sister Simone whos been missing for 50 years.Despite being told shes confused and not quite understanding how wi-fi works Nadia is determined to find Simone. So with only cryptic postcards and her own jumbled memories to go on Nadia must race against her own fading faculties and find her sister before she herself is forgotten.Set against the lush and glamorous backdrop of 20th century Alexandria Carol Coopers third novel is equal parts contemporary mystery and historical fiction: a re-coming of age story about family identity and homeland.
language: English
title: The Girls from Alexandria
publisher: Agora Books