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King of the Badgers

by Philip Hensher

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Hanmouth: a quiet, picturesque English seaside town. But behind closed, Georgian front doors and the within the artisan cheese shop, its residents live lives that are anything but. When an 8-year-old girl goes missing from the estate on the fringes of the town, Hanmouth becomes the centre of national attention. Under the scrutiny of the investigation the extraordinary individual lives of the community are laid bare: the passions of a quiet international aid worker; a recently widowed old woman's late discovery of sexual gratification; and a memorable party, held by the Bears.

Fiction, generalMissing persons, fictionInvestigationMissing childrenElectronic surveillanceMissing personsRight of PrivacyCity and town lifeFictionEngland, fiction
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