A State of Freedom Neil Gibb If found guilty

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and when she revisits her past something clicks in her mind and her own reckless role in the hunt for Rosies abductor is revealed

Scientist Dr Rose Franklin has no memory of the last few years

watching the sparks whirl up like millions of shining spirits streaking away into the dark

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A State of Freedom Neil Gibb If found guiltyWhat happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? Can we transform the possibilities we are born into? A State of Freedom prises open the central, defining events of our century displacement and migration but not as you imagine them. Five characters, in very different circumstances, from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, and a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in