The Reckoning by Tyrrell, Patricia - 2002

London, United Kingdom: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2004 Original dustjacket not price clipped. Tight copy, clean text pages, no internal markings. Dustjacket edges slightly rubbed, small scratch on the back of the d/j (approx 1 inch). Was first published in the UK in 2002 by SixForty Press as 'The Bones in the Womb'. It was shortlisted for the Encore Award in 2003. This is an intense story of a fifteen year old girl whose abductor decides after twelve years to return her to her parents. It is a riveting meditation on the themes of loss and reunion, parents and children, and nature versus nurture.

Mississauga, ON, Canada: Knopf Canada, 2004. First. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. pp.218 clean tight copy with slight creasing to front top edge Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

W&N, 2004-06-01. Hardcover. Good. 2.7979 in x 21.3837 in x 14.1892 in.

London:: Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, (2002). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author's second novel, originally self-published in paperback in only 300 copies and short-listed for the Encore Award. "In a phone booth beside a dusty Arizona highway, fifteen-year-old Cate listens in on yet another conversation between Les and her mother. But this is no ordinary chit chat, for the woman at the end of the line hasn t seen her daughter since she was three years old, and the man in the phone booth is the homeless drifter who abducted Cate from beside her sleeping parents over a decade ago. Now Les has finally determined that the time has come for Cate to go home." 218 pp.

Alfred A. Knopf. Used - Very Good.

London: Quality Paperbacks Direct (QPD), 2004. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2004 Hardback. Very Good.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (red boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8¾” x 5¾” (0.5 kg); 218pp; First British Edition. [First Published: 2002] ISBN: 0297848917 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #166110|| Condition:

Hardcover. New. Hardcover New Ships From Canada New in new dust jacket Sewn binding Cloth over boards 224 p Audience: General/trade Product Description: Imagine Mark Haddon meets Alice Sebold and you have Patricia Tyrrell s The Reckoning In a phone booth beside a dusty Arizona highway, fifteen-year-old Cate listens in on yet another conversation between Les (the man who has raised her since she was a toddler) and her mother But this is no ordinary chit chat, for the woman at the end of the line hasn t seen her daughter since she was three years old, and the man in the phone booth is the homeless drifter who abducted Cate from beside her sleeping parents over a decade ago Now Les has finally determined that the time has come for Cate to go home How will Cate cope with learning to love a mother she can t remember, and with learning to reject the father-figure she has loved for twelve years? How will her mother reconcile the memories of her three-year-old daughter with the hard-bitten, poorly educated and cy