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TOM SPICER
A STILL SMALL VOICE
D.A. Swain
ISBN 978-1-916668-62-1
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Publication: 26 APRIL 2024
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ISBN: 9781916668621
Price: £10.99
Binding: Paperback
Format: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 400 pp
Illustrated: None
Thema: FV Historical fiction
Author location: London
Book location: India
• A historical novel set against the backdrop of
British India in the 1920s, following a young
boy who is spirited away to an Indian
compound to escape dangers in England,
where he is the heir to a vast fortune.
• A liquor dealer who has already murdered
Tom's parents, seeks to kill the infant as well
in order to seize his inheritance.
D.A. Swain has a B.Ed (Hons) degree from Exeter University, taught • A reversal of the Oliver Twist narrative, this
English in the UK and France and was the English translator for the book will appeal to readers of William Boyd
Port of Marseille Authority. Since 2004, he has owned and operated and Vikram Seth.
care homes for the elderly in the Northwest of England, though
always pursued his passion for writing. His first novel Fathers, Sons, Set against the backdrop of 1920s colonial India are the
Unholy Ghosts was published in 1995. Tom Spicer: A Still Small mysteries that follow little Stephen Crow when he is
Voice is his second book. smuggled from England, by his corrupt uncle Jeremy, into
a wealthy Indian household. Why is he hastily renamed
Tom Spicer? And why are his origins, an heir to a vast
fortune, hidden from them?
A widow in the native Indian compound, lovingly adopts
Tom as her own. But the dangers that forced Tom’s removal
Sales: Star Book Sales LLP from England soon catch up with him here, far from his
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Orders: Troubador Publishing Tom Spicer: A Still Small Voice is an expansive novel which
Tradeorders@troubador.co.uk takes the Oliver Twist narrative and reverses it – skilfully
0116 279 2299 transporting readers to a bygone era.
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