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Rachel Billington
talks to Amanda Blinkhorn:
The Missing Boy
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The Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival is sponsored by BDO. All today's events are sponsored by Development Securities Plc.
One hundred thousand children run away from home every year in the UK. Rachel Billington’s The Missing Boy (Orion, May 2010) imagines the personal story of one of those children. It is a tense and emotional novel about the day-to-day existence of a contemporary family living through their worst nightmare.
Rachel Billington is the author of 19 other novels, including Lies and Loyalties, One Summer, The Space Between and A Woman’s Life. She is the co-editor of Inside Time, a national newspaper written for and by prisoners, and has been the President of PEN. She lives in London and Dorset with her husband, the director Kevin Billington.
Amanda Blinkhorn is a regular contributer to newspapers and women's consumer magazines.
One hundred thousand children run away from home every year in the UK. Rachel Billington’s The Missing Boy (Orion, May 2010) imagines the personal story of one of those children. It is a tense and emotional novel about the day-to-day existence of a contemporary family living through their worst nightmare.
Rachel Billington is the author of 19 other novels, including Lies and Loyalties, One Summer, The Space Between and A Woman’s Life. She is the co-editor of Inside Time, a national newspaper written for and by prisoners, and has been the President of PEN. She lives in London and Dorset with her husband, the director Kevin Billington.
Amanda Blinkhorn is a regular contributer to newspapers and women's consumer magazines.