The Other Hand - Tapa blanda

A powerful piece of art... shocking, exciting and deeply affecting...[a] superb novel... Besides sharp, witty dialogue, an emotionally charged plot and the vivid characters' ethical struggles, THE OTHER HAND delivers a timely challenge to reinvigorate our notions of civilized decency. - Independent Exquisitely balanced between terrible sadness and brilliant humour. - Observer Big themes, high emotion and cliffhangers aplenty... an enormously affecting investigation of love, guilt and global responsibility, told with a bittersweet urgency. - Justine Jordan, Guardian Searingly eloquent. - Daily Mail An ambitious and fearless gallop from the jungles of Africa via a shocking encounter on a Nigerian beach to the media offices of London and domesticity in leafy suburbia...Cleave immerses the reader in the worlds of his characters with an unshakable confidence. - Lawrence Norfolk, Guardian totally believable... the author has a knack of explaining human suffering... I look forward to his next offering. - Daily Express impresses as a feat of literary engineering... the plot exerts a fearsome grip. - Daily Telegraph An exhilarating, disturbing read. - James Urquhart, Independent (Books of the Year)

Chris Cleave's debut novel INCENDIARY was a prize-winner and international bestseller and his second novel, THE OTHER HAND has found phenomenal success both in the UK and abroad, hitting number one on the New York Times bestseller list. He is married with three children, and lives in Kingston-upon-Thames. He keeps a website at www.chriscleave.com and can be found on twitter.com/chriscleave.