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Border crossing

Pat Barker

2004215 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2004
first published
  • 2001Viking · 215 pages · ENGISBN 9780670878413
  • 2001Farrar, Straus, and Giroux · 215 pages · ENGISBN 9780374181154
  • 2002Penguin Books, Limited · ENGISBN 9780141008684
  • 2002Picador USA · 215 pages · ENGISBN 9780312420192
  • 2002Penguin · 280 pages · ENGISBN 9780140270747
  • 2007Farrar, Straus & Giroux · ENGISBN 9780374706043
  • 2010Penguin Group UK · ENGISBN 9780141935430
  • 2017Picador · 224 pagesISBN 9781250165954

When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter from his past he'd hoped to forget. For Tom already knows Danny Miller - when Danny was ten Tom helped imprison him for the killing of an old woman. Now out of prison with a new identity, Danny has some questions - questions he thinks only Tom can answer. Reluctantly, Tom is drawn back into Danny's world - a place where the border between good and evil, innocence and guilt is blurred and confused. But when Danny's demands on Tom become extreme, Tom wonders whether he has crossed a line of his own - and in crossing it, can he ever go back?

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