- Terrorism, Working class families, Terrorism victims' families, Fiction
A distraught woman writes a letter to Osama bin Laden after her four-year-old son and her husband are killed in a massive suicide bomb attack at a soccer match in London. She tries to convince Osama to abandon his terror campaign by revealing to him the desperate sadness - "I am a woman built on the wreckage of myself"--And the broken heart of a working-class life blown apart.
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- gravecomic
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- Author
- Chris Cleave
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 292
- Publisher
- Howes, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, Anchor
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781451635768
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