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People I Wanted To Be by Gina Ochsner

Fiction. Published December 2005.
Hardback (210 x 148mm).
£12.99. 216 pages.
ISBN: 1 84627 006 5

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From the Russian couple haunted by the ghosts of children they never had, to the man who buys a mynah bird in the hope of saving his marriage, these are people who feel that their lives are loose skins they've not quite grown into and perhaps won't ever fit.

And yet each of them is about to embark upon a journey in which inspiration is found in the most unlikely places, reality is catapulted to the edge of the possible, and even the blackest despair is illuminated by small, improbable miracles. With her UK debut, Gina Ochsner takes the universe we know and shows us how it might be – and it's a place you'll never want to leave.
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