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Haunting and beautiful, Hand Me Down World is the simply unforgettable story by the multi-award winning author of Mister Pip . It was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book, South East Asia and Pacific, 2011. A woman washes ashore in Sicily. She has come from north Africa to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old by his father and stolen away to Berlin. With nothing but her maid's uniform and a knife stashed in a plastic bag, she relies on strangers to guide her passage north. These strangers tell of their encounters with a quiet, mysterious woman in a blue coat-each account a different view of the truth. And slowly these fragments of a life piece together to create a spellbinding story of the courage of a mother and the versions of truth we create to accommodate our lives. Lloyd Jones was born in 1955 in Lower Hutt in New Zealand and graduated from Victoria University. He has worked as a journalist and covered Papua New Guinea's blockade of Bougainville during the 1990s, which formed the setting for his bestselling Mister Pip . Jones has received awards including the Katherine Mansfield Memorial fellowship (1988), the Deutz Medal for Fiction

Who reads Hand Me Down World?

Author

Lloyd Jones

Publisher

The Text Publishing Company

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781921799822

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.56 / 5 (36 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14