Criminals
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Margot Livesey.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Abandoned children -- Fiction; Infants -- Crimes against -- Fiction; Criminal psychology -- Fiction; Scotland -- Fiction
Description: A decent, harried young banker, already on the verge of distraction, hurries north to Scotland and his mysteriously troubled sister...A "foreign" mother struggles to make a home for her family in a society she only vaguely comprehends...A baby girl is abandoned in a bus-station rest room...And thus five lives and more are caught up in a binding net of affection and responsibility, of sibling loyalty, romantic longing, and maternal love.