Personality

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Maria Tambini is a thirteen-year-old girl with an amazing singing voice. Growing up in the 1970s above her mother's chip shop on the Scottish island of Bute, she is making ready to escape the ordinary life to become a living exhibit in the modern drama of celebrity.

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"The book is so bustling and rich...that the darkness seems lit from end to end."--The New Yorker"The New Yorker" (08/11/2003)

Author Bio

Andrew O'Hagan was born in Glasgow. He is the author of The Missing, which was shortlisted for the Esquire Award, the Saltire First Book Award, and the McVities prize for the Scottish Writer of the Year. His debut novel, Our Fathers, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the IMPAC Dublin International Literary Prize. He lives in London