Claudia Durastanti: Strangers I Know [2022] paperback ZDESI Drawing from historical accounts of

Drawing from historical accounts of the daughter of famed Roman orator Quintus Hortensius Hortalus

But then it transpires another body has been discovered amongst the dead - one of the doctors who went missing from the hospital in mysterious circumstances forty years ago

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She is soon shown that she is wrong

Claudia Durastanti: Strangers I Know [2022] paperback ZDESI Drawing from historical accounts ofEvery family has its own mythology, but in this family none of the myths match up. Claudia's mother says she met her husband when she stopped him from jumping off a bridge. Her father says it happened when he saved her from an attempted robbery. Both parents are deaf but couldn't be more different; they can't even agree on how they met, much less who needed saving. Into this unlikely yet somehow inevitable union, our narrator is born. She comes of age