Kamila Shamsie: Burnt Shadows [2018] paperback SHBFI And someone is leaving them

And someone is leaving them taunting messages

For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising

events take an unexpected and dangerous direction

When her young daughter is tormented by an angry ghost

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Kamila Shamsie: Burnt Shadows [2018] paperback SHBFI And someone is leaving themShortlisted for the Orange Prize By the acclaimed winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. She is twenty one and on the verge of marrying Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns whiteIn the numbing aftermath of a bomb that obliterates everything she has known, all that remains are the bird shaped burns on