In this disturbing story, fourteen-year-old Muna lives a terrible life in the home of the Songolis, an immigrant family who have to hide her identity from the British police in order to report their son's mysterious disappearance. Under local police scrutiny, Mr. and Mrs. Songoli have to suspend Muna's beatings and attempt to treat as if she were a daughter.
But Muna is not their daughter; she is an orphan girl whom they have treated as a slave ever since they'd stolen her seven or eight years ago in their native country, somewhere in Africa.
This was a fascinating book, but very very dark.
I also read recently by this author: The Turn of Midnight
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